the vital, spiritual contact with the thoughts and feelings, the hopes and the aspirations of   
the masses of the people, of those classes, namely, on whom more than others, and in a measure  
 never felt before, weighs the burden of sorrow and sacrifice imposed by the present restless   
and tempestuous hour.  Also for this reason, none perhaps better than We can understand the   
meaning, the revealing power and the warmth of feeling manifest in this act of your Excellency.  
  In fact Our own daily Experience tells Us of the deep-seated yearning for peace that fills the  
 hearts of the common people.  In the measure that the war with its direct and indirect   
repercussions spreads; and the more economic, social and family life is forcibly wrenched   
from its normal bases by the continuation of the war, and is forced along the way of sacrifice   
and every kind of privation, the bitter need of which is not always plain to all; so much   
more intense is the longing for peace that pervades the hearts of men and their determination  
 to find and to apply the means that lead to peace.
 
 
 
When that day dawns- and We would like to hope that it is not too far distant-on which the roar  
of battle will lapse into silence and there will arise the possibility of establishing a true  
and sound peace dictated by the principles of justice and equity, only he will be able to   
discern the path that should be followed who unites with high political power a clear understanding  
 of the voice of humanity along with a sincere reverence for the divine precepts of life as   
found in hte Gospel of Christ.  only men of such moral stature will be able to create the peace,   
that will compensate for the incalculable