humankind, is a single, great universal human race. All men are, above all,   
members of the same great kind. They all belong to the single great family   
of the living, Humankind is, therefore, a single universal race." Nazi   
terror directed the storming of the homes of Cardinals Innitzer and   
Faulhaber. The Catholic priesthood is held up to ridicule and scorn and   
shame. Hundreds of Protestant Clergymen of the Confessional church have been  
arrested, and Pastor Niemoeller still languishes in a Nazi cell|
 
 
 
I believe the nation generally would welcome your course and understanding  
in this matter of re-establishing diplomatic relations with the Holy See.   
A pronouncement to this effect would scatter the termites of bigotry and  
rodents of irreligion the world over.
 
 
 
No sincere citizen of the United States, familiar with the history of his  
country and its relations with the Holy See, can reasonably object to the   
re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the government of the   
United States and the Holy See.
 
 
 
Lastly, there has ascended to the Papal Throne, Pope