that we cannot deal with faithless men; that the peacful ways of   
diplomacy have utterly failed against Axis duplicity, ruthlessness and   
insensiblity to all moral considerations.  This is no time for a recourse   
to diplomacy.  Having made every effort to avoid this war, we shall not   
now be weakened by Axis cunning when we have taken the field.  We consider  
that Axis inspired proposals of "peace " would be nothing less than a   
                     blow aimed at us.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
There is reason to believe that our Axis enemies will attempt, through   
devious channels , to urge the Holy See to endorse in the near future   
proposals of peace without victory.  In the present position of the   
belligerents, we can readitly understand how strong a pressure the Axis   
powers may bring to bear upon the Vatican.  We therefore feel it  a duty   
to support the Holy See in resisting any undue pressure from this source.   
It is for this reason that we feel implled to make know our views on the   
subject of peace, and to point out that the growing power of the United   
States is now being applied to re-establish those principles of   
international decency and justice which have been so well expounded by the   
Holy See.  We are not so close geopraphically to the Vatican as some of   
our enemies, nor are we in a position to enjoy as many of the indirect day   
to day contacts as they.  Nonetheless, we have the fullest confidence that   
due weight will be given to the considerations advanced by a ntion which   
numbers among its citizens so many millions of devout Catholics, and whose   
government is in such close agreement with the principles enunciated by   
         the Holy See on the issues of this war and         
 
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