Pius XII; by the famous Five Points laid down in 1939 by the same Pope as   
the essential postulates of a just peace; and by the forthright and heroic   
expressions of indignation made by Pope Pius XII when Germany invaded the   
Low Countries.  Now that we are fighting against the very things which the   
Popes condemned , our conviction of complete victory is one with our   
confidence in the unwavering tenacity with which the Holy See will   
          continue its magnificent moral leading.           
 
                                                            
 
 
Because we know we are in the right, and becuase we have supreme   
confidence in our strengh, we are determined to carry through until we   
shall have won complete victory.  The only thing that would make us lay   
down the arms taken up in defense of national security and world decency   
would be the complete and forthright acceptance of the Atlantic Charter   
and the Manifesto of the United Nations--the provisions of which, by the   
way, are in substantial agreement with the Holy Father's abovementioned   
postulates for a just and lasting peace.  Our cause is just.  We fight   
with conscience slear, for the moral rights of our nation, and for the   
liberties of our people; our victory will ensure those rights and   
liberties to the world.  Even our enemies know that we seek no   
aggrandizement.  Precisely for the reason that our moral position is   
impregnable, we are not open to the compromises usual to those who look   
for merely material gains, and who will bargain for half a loaf if they   
cannot have the whole. A peace loving people, we exhausted every honorable   
means to remain at peace; in the midst of peace negotiations, we were   
foully attacked by Germany's partner in the Orient.  Like Austria,   
Czechoslovakia, Poland and the rest, we were made the victims of Axis   
     aggression at the very monent when their diplomats     
 
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