7 Rue Alphonse Fochier                   
                      Lyon, May 1 1941                      
 
                                                            
 
 
                    My dear Ambassador:                     
 
                                                            
 
 
I wrote to you about ten days ago and here I am again abusing your patience|    
You will please pardon me.  But I wish to send you by a sure means an article  
which I have published in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" on the Holy See and the  
Peace" which may be of interest to you.  I have not signed the article out of  
courtesy to the Holy Father and writing anonymously permits me to say a certain  
number of things which I could not otherwise express in view of the official  
mission I had there.  But I believe it to be of use to call the attention of  
the general public (using the discretion necessary) to the violations committed  
by Italy in regard to the Lateran Accord and to the absolutely paradoxical  
situation in Rome of the religious establishments of the belligerent countries  
sequestered by Italy.  Perhaps it will be possible for you to bring this  
article to the attention of some American magazine or newspaper which would  
be interested in these Vatican questions.  You will see, on the other hand,   
that I have used all my efforts to assemble the various statements of Pope Pius  
XII regarding the war and the future peace and there is gathered therefrom a  
 strong and very clear doctrine which should be brought to l
 
                                                            
 
 
Since my last letter the currents of which I spoke to you have been   
accentuated.  It is plain that German propaganda is endeavoring, with an infernal  
art, to exploit the recent successes of the Axis in Yugoslavia, Greece, and  
Cyrensica to impress public opinion, to make make it believe that the game is   
already over; that there is no further chance for England to win the war and  
that the simplest and best policy is to resign one's self immediately to the   
complete triumph of Germany|  Unfortunately, a certain number of people are  
shaken and, although deploring it, consider that this submission is, perhaps,  
the right thing.  They are manipulated by the knaves which Germany keeps among  
us who are, alas, numerous and very well supplied with tools.  However, those  
who allow themselves to be swayed by the German success and the Nazi propaganda  
are but a infinite minority of the country; the immense majority of the French  
people maintain all their faith, as they maintain all their energy, but this  
  time, I repeat, it reposes solely in the United States.   
 
                                                            
 
 
Everyone says: "If the United States enters the war then everything becomes  
possible again, even certain.  But if the United States does not make the  
necessary effort - that is to say, all the effort necessary - then England,  
alone, will end by succumbing and we shall be lost with her."  It is therefore  
on you, definitively, that the fate of Europe and of the world depends.  I  
                          affirm