TREATIES AND BULLS COME AND GO

What can begin as a piece of performance writing can end up so much wasted paper, or vellum as the case may be.

On 25^th February, 1991 the Warsaw Pact was declared disbanded at a meeting of defence and foreign ministers from Pact countries meeting in Hungary.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, or more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defence treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organisation for the communist states of Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was a Soviet military response to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955, per the Paris Pacts of 1954.

The founding signatories to the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance consisted of the following communist governments:

People's Republic of Albania (withheld support in 1961 because of the Sino-Soviet split, formally withdrew in 1968)

People's Republic of Bulgaria

Czechoslovak Republic (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1960)

German Democratic Republic (withdrew in September 1990, before German reunification)

People's Republic of Hungary

People's Republic of Poland

Peoples's Republic of Romania (Socialist Republic of Romania from 1965)

Soviet Union

In 1569 there was a major Catholic rising in the North; the goal was to free Mary, Queen of Scots, marry her to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and put her on the English throne. After the rebels' defeat, over 750 of them were executed on Queen Elizabeth's orders.

In the belief that the revolt had been successful, Pope Pius V issued a bull on 25^th  February 1570 titled Regnans in Excelsis, which declared "Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime" to be excommunicate and a heretic, releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her and excommunicating any that obeyed her orders.

The man was clearly a fool.