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human conduct than has marked the past. All the segments
of social and economic life that were present in a reasonably happy world
prior to the first world war, and many of which
were even present prior to the present war, will have to be
refitted into au international pattern and that pattern too will have to
be changed. Certainly many of the segments will have to be reconstructed
and refitted. Agreements to reconstitute and improve conditions are
desirable, not to say essential, but actually to create them and to make
them function on the basis of the individual man and man is quite a
different proposition.
At a later date I will prepare a formal statement regarding the welcome
I received from His Holiness and all others associated with him in the
Vatican Organization, its related and subsidiary agencies. I wish to say
briefly that I have been accorded most unusual privileges and
opportunities. From my earliest arrival here His Holiness has assured me
that "his doors would be open day and night" without appointment, to me.
In the war period I have had at least one weekly audience, usually of an
extended character with His Holiness and have enjoyed a relationship of
complete confidence and understanding. This intimate relationship has
proven to be one of the great experiences of my life and for it I am most
grateful. When the day comes that I shall not return here for extended
periods I