Creator on the hearts of men, may soon, as itmust ultimately, prevail as the   
universal rule of human conduct over arbitrary whim and sordid interest which  
here and there have usurped its place, and that in consequence the rising  
generation may be saved from the moral illiteracy with which they are threatened.    
And thus, when all shall have come finally to realize that violence is futile  
and that hatred is a sterile force, a wearied world may rejoice in a peac builded  
upon the solid foundation of justice and firmly held together by the bonds of  
fraternal charity.
 
   
 
 
  We renew to Your Excellency the expression of Our gratitude for your greeting  
while, in the light of happy rememberance, We pray for your continued well-  
being and for that of the American people.
 
    
 
 
 Given at Rome, from St. Peter's, the 16th day of March, 1940, the second  
year of our pontificate.
 
                          
 
 
PIUS P.P. XII