the kind of peace which must follow it.            
 
                                                            
 
 
The people of the United States have a deep and sympathetic understanding   
of the Holy Father's desires for peace as he looks out upon a world   
convulsed with the farrowing spectacle of death and destruction on every   
side.  The promotion of world peace, we know, is one of the great   
functions of the Holy See.  Through deferred, that peace will come -not a   
specious peace of strategy nor a short lived peace of compromise.  It will   
be the peace of justice and charity for which the Holy Father has so   
often prayed; it will be the peace "in which the spirit of Christ will   
rule the hearts of men and of nations" as promised by the President of the   
United States.  THe United States and its allies will win that peace.  And  
in its consolidation, we should want nothing better than a continuation   
of those parallel efforts made by the Pope and the President before the   
war became general.  In such a continuation, so devoutly to be hoped for,   
h can be accomplished to ensure that the peace will be lasti
 
                                                            
 
 
The war aims of the United States are peace aims.  The world knows them.    
The Atlantic Charter lays down conditions which in our deepest convictions   
are irreducible.  Any proposal under the plausible title of a "negotiated   
peace" which falls short of these aims, would only tend to confuse issues   
which we are determined to keep clear and decide definitively, and would,   
moreover, inevitably weaken the moral influence of those who might be   
               inveigled into presenting it.