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With the tide of battle turning strongly in Russian  
and Allied favor in Europe, an effort by various and clever means to sow   
the seeds for a "negotiated" peace with Germany was sponsored in many   
quarters and alleged to be implemented within some Catholic groups in   
America and in R~me. The Pope's allocution of June 2nd on the subject of   
 was interpreted in many quarters as promoting a "negotiated
 
                                                            
 
 
At your request I returned to Rome promptly upon its  
fall June 5, arriving the middle of that month. My task was to explain the   
need, the logic and practicability of unconditional surrender by Germany   
in the light of the war, Germany's hideous practices and the war's primary   
causes. It was vitally important to the present and to the future that   
there should be left no ground for the development of an illusion to be   
ripened into a slogan by Germany that she had "never been beaten". That   
task has not been an easy one. No further addresses encouraging an early   
or "negotiated" peace have been made by His Holiness. On the contrary, the   
Pope' s allocution, September l, 1944, definitely discussed and enumerated   
the basio conditions for civilized life of the individual and the mass of   
manity, and the spiritual relationship as an essential eleme
 
                  *See Appendices I and II