order, justice, and peace. A tangible proof of these generous dispositions We have had in your sending His Excellency Mr. Myron Taylor to Us, as your personal represen- tative with rank of Ambassador Extraordinary. Special circumstances have interrrupted his presence with Us, but We like to hope that the plan for the attainment pf those high ideals you had in mind may yet be realized. Indeed, We are not unaware of the efforts which you made to prevent the catastrophic struggle that is heaping up ruin and sorrow for a great part of the Old World; and in Our paternal solicitude for suffering human- ity there is nothing We desire more ardently than to see true pece return at long last among peoples, who have been too long and too painfully stricken and afflicted:- that true peace, We mean, that will adjust all wrongs, that will recognize with well-judged equity the vital necessities of all, and thus mark for the world a the beginning of a new era of tranquility, collaboration and progress among peoples under the longed-for reign of Christian justice and charity. While We renew the expression of Our good wishes |