Sui Generis Diplomacy in Ministry of Ana Pauker. Refusal of an Unusual Verbal Note from Apostolic Nunciature (June 27, 1949) Cover Image

Diplomație sui-generis în Ministeriatul Anei Pauker. Refuzul unei note verbale inedite a Nunțiaturii Apostolice (27 iunie 1949)
Sui Generis Diplomacy in Ministry of Ana Pauker. Refusal of an Unusual Verbal Note from Apostolic Nunciature (June 27, 1949)

Author(s): Şerban Turcuş
Subject(s): Politics, History, Diplomatic history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Romanian diplomacy; Catholic Church; Verbale Note; Ana Pauker; Apostolic Nunciature.

Summary/Abstract: This research is based on a new document: the Verbale Note No. 2667 of the Apostolic Nunciature in Bucharest to the Romanian Foreign Ministry during Ana Pauker. The copy of the Verbale Note was sent to Rome by the Minister of Italy in Bucharest, Michele Scammacca. He specifies that the Verbale Note which contained the protest against the arrest of the bishops Márton Áron and Anton Durcovici was denied by the Foreign Ministry as if the Holy See would not have been recognized by the Romanian government. The Nunciature made the Verbale Note to reach Ana Pauker by another method along with a letter, but the Foreign Minister of Romania has still not registered the Note, that can not be found in the archives of the Foreign Ministry. The episode demonstrates that political power in Bucharest despised diplomatic rules and was determined to destroy the Catholic Church in Romania.

  • Issue Year: LVI/2017
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 369-376
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian