the following details were set forth :
 
     
 
 
His Eminence writes that he has been much interested   
to read what Your Excellency wrote concerning your part in   
the negotiations which, in spite of considerable difficulties,   
were brought to a conclusion by the ,,modus vivendi,, in 1927.   
His Eminence is particularly pleased to receive your courteous   
reference to the Church and to the August Pontiff Pius XII, who   
has nothing more at heart than a just and lasting peace, sealed,   
not with hatred mad revenge, but with the noble majesty of Justice.   
His Holiness has already given expression to this desire, both  
on June 2nd, 1940 and more recently in his Christmas message to  
the world.
 
     
 
 
The Pope and the Holy See is with every nation in its suffering,   
and strives always to fulfil faithfully the pastoral mission divinely   
entrusted to the Church, and to succour the distressed in every possible way.
 
     
 
 
Naturally, therefore, the Czechoslovak