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Pius XII went only so far as to say in his motu proprio: "It is fair to hope and trust that at least on that holy night and on that holy day all belligerents will declare a truce...
...Berlin, officers said stiffly that "it has never been the practice of the German fighting forces to disturb the quiet of that holy day," and strongly implied that a spontaneous Christmas truce is possible this year at least in regard to German bombings. During World War I in various individual sectors of the Western Front there was often such spontaneous Christmas truce as the Pope last week thought well to mention. But a formal, negotiated 1940 Christmas truce was seemingly ruled out by Winston Churchill fortnight ago in the House of Commons. To a question from Laborite Thomas Ellis Naylor...
...this was coldblooded, the U. S. at least could not point a finger of reproof, for Americans have long been proud of the exploit of George Washington, who on Christmas evening, 1776, crossed the Delaware and attacked the Hessians who had overeaten and overdrunk. Actually a general Christmas truce is impossible for practical reasons. The Germans, for example, could not be expected to keep their submarines inactive so long as British convoys plied the seas. And to keep their convoys off the seas on Christmas Day the British would have to give up shipping on the North Atlantic...
...William Ewert (now Baron Camrose) and James Gomer (now Baron Kemsley). The Berrys had a prosperous string of provincial newspapers on which Rothermere looked with a jealous eye. He set up rival papers in Newcastle and Bristol. Eventually the news war became so expensive that both sides called a truce. Rothermere retired from Newcastle, leaving most of the field to the Berrys...
Even if a truce could be obtained in Europe, the Axis power and the threat of that power would remain. We would need a large army and navy, and increased production for war. We would be faced with renewed totalitarian propaganda, Bund activity, and all the rest of it throughout this hemisphere...