Diplomacy in Western Europe
Under Gasparri's leadership, the Vatican successfully concluded a record number of diplomatic agreements with European governments, many of which heading new states, created after World War I. On March 29, 1924, a concordat was signed between Gasparri and Bavaria, with France on February 10, 1925, Czecheslovakia on February 2, 1928, Portugal, April 15, 1928, and Romania on May 19, 1932.
The Lateran Treaty is the crowning achievement of Pietro Gaparri, as it ended the sixty-year conflict between the Vatican and the Kingdom of Italy. It includes three agreements made in 1929 between the Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See, ratified June 7, 1929, thus ending the "Roman Question". Main Vatican negotiator for Pietro Gasparri was the lawyer Pacelli, the brother of Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli.
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