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Nazis, Fascists Back Pro-totalitarian Cardinal for Pope

February 14, 1939
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The “powers of order” — Germany and Italy — would like to see Elia Cardinal Della Costa, Archbishop of Florence, elected by the Sacred College to succeed the late Pope Pius XI, Nazi circles indicated unofficially tonight. The 66-year-old prelate, it was believed, would be more favorable to the Rome-Berlin axis than the last Pontiff, who waged a long fight against racism and totalitarian ideology.

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