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MEMORANDUM OF  
                                                            
 
HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XII  
                                                            
 
RE  
                                                            
 
BOMBING CIVILIAN POPULATIONS  
                                                            
 
                     SEPTEMBER 26, 1942                     
 
                                                            
 
 
ut of a heart filled with constant solicitude, with the fate
 
                                                            
 
 
he sufferings of civilians, for helpless women and children,
 
                                                            
 
 
and so valued a Representative. To refuse to comply with suc
 
                                                            
 
 
continue to form part of this harrowing war, let them with a
 
                                                            
 
 
 which I shall leave with Mgr. Montini at a meeting we are h