It is of high importance that, at this juncture when the Allied Powers are  
passing to the offensive in the conduct of the War, the attitude of the  
United States Government with to the respect to the present world struggle  
                be restated to the Holy See.                
 
                                                            
 
 
Before the war became general, President Roosevelt, in parallel effort   
with Holy See, explored every possible avenue for the preservation of the   
peace. The experience of those days of fruitful cooperation, when the   
high moral prestige of the Holy See was buttressed by the civil power of   
the United States of America, is a precious memory. Although totalitarian   
aggression defeated those first efforts to prevent world war, the United   
States looks forward to furhter collaboration of this kind when the   
anti-Christian philosophies which this kind when the sword shall have   
perished by the sword, and it will again be possible to organize world   
                           peace.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
In the just war which they are now waging the people of the United States   
of America derive great spiritual strength and moral encouragement from a   
review of the utterance of His Holiness Pope Pius XII and of his venerated   
Predecessor. Americans, Catholic and non-Catholic, have been profoundly   
impressed by the searing condemnation of NAzi religious persecution   
pronounced by Pope Pius XI in his "Mit Brennender Sorge"; by the elevated   
teaching on law and human dignity conatained in the "Sumni Pontificatus"   
of Pope Pius XII; by the famous Five Points laid down in 1939 by the same   
Pope as the essential postulates of a just peace; and by the forthright   
and heroic expressions of indignation made by Pope Pius XII when Germany   
invaded the Low countries. Now that we are fighting against the very things  
 which the Pope condemned, our conviction of complete vistory is one with   
our confidence in the unwavering tenacity with which the Holy See will   
          continue its magnificent moral leading.           
 
                                                            
 
 
Because we know we are in the right, and because we have supreme confidence  
in our strength, we are determined to carry through until we shall have   
won complete victory. The only thing that would have made us lay down the   
arms taken up in defense of national security and world decency would be   
the complete and forthright accpetance of the Atlantic Charter and the   
Manifesto of the United Nations-- the provisions of which, by the way,   
are in substantail agreement with the Holy Father's above-mentioned   
postulates for a just and lasting peace. Our cause is just. We fight,   
with conscience clear, for the moral rights of our nation, and for the   
liberties of our people; our victory will ensure those rights and   
liberties to the world. even our enemies know that we seek no   
aggrandizment. Precisely for the reason that our moral position is   
impregnable, we are not open to the compromises usual to those who look   
for half a loaf if they cannot have the whole. A peace-loving people, we   
                      exhausted every