To   
                 His Holiness Pope Pius XII                 
 
                                                            
 
 
A statement by Myron Taylor made September 19, 1942 as a basis on which   
the parallel efforts for a just and moral peace fo His Holiness and   
               President Roosevelt may rest.                
 
                                                            
 
 
It is of high importance that at this juncture when the Allied Powers are   
passing to the offensive in hte conduct of the War, the attitude of the   
United States Government with respect to the present world struggle be   
                 restated to the Holy See.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
Before the war became general, President Roosevelt, in paralled effort   
with the 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   
ggression defeated those first afforts to prevent world war, the United   
States looks forward to further collaboration of this kind when the anti-  
Chriatian philosophies which have taken 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 utterances 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 contained in the "Summi   
                   Pontificatus" of Pope                    
 
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