WE have read your memorandum very carefully, and We have found it   
intensely interesting.  The issues are so cleaar cut; of the definite,   
determined stand of the United States Government it leaves no shadow of a   
                           doubt.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
It gave Us great satisfaction to know from Your Excellency how united in   
this hour of national trial are all the Catholics of the United States,   
under the enlightened leadership of the Bishops and that between the   
Bishops and the President and his Government ther exist such sincers   
                 relations of mutual trust.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
It has been a pleasure for Us to hear your Excellency recall President   
Roosvelt's aim and efforts to bring about a peace that will be worthy of   
man's personal dignity and of his high destiny.  This peace, as We have   
constantly repeated, must be bases on justice and charity.  It must take   
into consideration the vital needs of all nations; all must find it   
possible of fulfilment ; it must bear within itself the seeds of longevity.  
 Moreover, to Our mind, there is not the slightest chance of peace being   
genuine and lasting, unless , to begin with, the mutual relations between   
governemtns and peoples, as well as those between individual governments   
and their own peoples, are based not on utilitatianism, arbitrary decrees   
or brute force, but on fulfilment of contracts made, on the sacred   
observance  of justice and law, tempered by Christian charity and   
brotherly love, on reverence for the dignity of the human person an   
           respect for religious convictions; and