Your Excellency with a view to establishing unofficial  
contacts between the Czechoslovak Government recently  
formed in London, and the Holy See, His Eminence is sure  
that Your Excellency will understand how delicate is the  
present situation and how difficult it would be at the  
present time to benefit the Czechoslovak people by means   
of such contacts. His Eninence is of opinion that the time   
for such a development has not yet come.
 
     
 
 
III. Since then more than two years have elapsed and   
the situation throughout the world, both in a military and   
political respect, has undergone a fundamental change. The   
military struggles of the United Nations have been joined in   
particular, by the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the United   
States of America in December 1941. In this way the potential   
preponderance in a military respect has shifted to the side of   
the United Nations. Since November, 1942, the development of   
hostilities has shown that the Axis