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...Modus Operandi of Binding...
...result that a pastoral letter was written to be read from all pulpits glorifying Hitler and his German troops, if & when the war is won. A further reference is made to the suspension of the official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, and that the Vatican sought and found a "modus vivendi" with all powers except Russia...
Thus did the Vatican, which has sought & found a modus vivendi with every victorious power except atheistic Soviet Russia, move to align itself with the new order in Europe. In an equally significant gesture to the southern Axis partner it announced that the semi-official Vatican newsorgan Osservatore Romano would cease publication. Banned outside Vatican City by the Italian Government because it printed British war communiques, it has lost circulation as rapidly as it gained it last autumn, when Romans discovered its unique (in Italy) impartiality (TIME, May 27). Osservatore Romano will be replaced by a Jesuit-owned paper, Corriere...
...ability to find a modus vivendi with every form of government it has ever encountered (exception: Communism...
...sign the Alliance with England and France, Germany will have to ... seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers which would be later very dangerous for us. If on the contrary we accept the Reich's offer of collaboration, the latter will not hesitate to crush Poland; England and France will be thereupon drawn fatally into war. There will result a thorough destruction of Western Europe, and remaining outside the conflict we can advantageously await our hour...