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...night . . . indicates that crews adhered to their definite instructions and did not bomb Vatican City." The world was reminded that as long ago as April 1941, London had warned the world that the Nazis and Fascists might use captured British bombs and captured British planes to raid the papal seat...
...declaration resulted from six months' study by priests, ministers and rabbis of Papal peace pronouncements, declarations by Protestant churches, Jewish organizations and nondenominational groups such as the Commission to Study the Bases of a Just & Durable Peace. Protestants, Catholics and Jews cannot yet agree on all phases of a just peace, but they have agreed on seven points, which provide the moral bases of such a peace. The seven points which embody the signers' hopes for the postwar world...
...issues then rested, while Italy stewed. There were reports of comings & goings between the Quirinal and the Vatican, where the U.S. had Harold Tittmann, a foreign service veteran, and Britain had Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Leeds. Papal Envoy Enrico Galeazzi showed up in Lisbon, said he was bound for the U.S. to buy supplies for the Vatican. Financier Giovanni Fummi registered at London's Claridge's; presumably he was executing a mission for the Vatican...
Your lurid and sinister picture of papal politics belies the Christian aims of the Vatican. Franco, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Petain were not raised up by the Pope; he makes the best of a situation and tries to improve it. He works for justice, peace, charity, for religion and human welfare...
...publications. Undoubtedly, TIME knew the article would bring many letters of condemnation from bigoted, intolerant anti-Catholics who shut their eyes to the obvious sense of the Papacy's position on social issues which TIME summarized brilliantly. (Everyone but the most anti anti-Catholics will admit that the papal assertions on social issues must underlie any permanent peace.) However, this is what I would expect from TIME: a fearless, unprejudiced representation of the truth. REDMOND ROCHE JR. Ann Arbor, Mich...