Ice in the bedroom / P. G. Wodehouse

• Record Nr.: UNINA990004227010403321
• Autore: Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville <1881-1975>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Hutchinson, 1981
• ISBN: 0-257-65944-7
• Descrizione fisica: 223 p. ; 20 cm
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: P.3 BR.C.859
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

America and the Vatican [[electronic resource] ] : Trading Information after World War II

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910162691103321
• Autore: Illing Robert F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Midpoint Trade Books, 2011
• ISBN: 1-933909-09-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 327
• Soggetti: Illing, Robert F
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""A Vaticanologist is Born""; ""A Relationship Growsâ€?Slowly""; ""Ben Gives an Assist to the Church in America""; ""Historical Growth of Papal Power""; ""The Paradigm of a Mini-State""; ""Pope Paul, the Man and His World""; ""The Vatican Vaults""; ""Audiences and American Visitors""; ""The Diplomatic Whirl""; ""Welcome to the Vatican, Mr. President""; ""Diplomatic Relationsâ€?Do ; We or Donâ€?t We?""; ""Our Diplomatic Relationship Under the Lodge Mission""; ""Covering the Waterfront""; ""A Long-Term Guest Departs""; ""The Middle East and Jerusalem""; ""American Prisoners of War""""The Population Conundrum""; ""The War Against Drugs""; ""Epilogue""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: The reader is given a rare view of the operations of the Vatican in the diplomatic world and some fascinating sidelights into the Vatican archives such as the role Benjamin Franklin played in the selection of the first Catholic Bishop in the United States and what the Pope actually intended to do about Henry the VIII.Robert Illing brings the reader into the fascinating and colorful political world of the Vatican, a unique entity with the dual nature of political state which functions apart from its other position as center of the Roman Catholic Church. A separate politcal state with diplomatic