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committed against persons or things, as well as the guarantees  
necessary for the defence of right against possible attempts at  
                         violence.                          
 
                                                            
 
 
These two different aspects of the formidable, problem have been   
widely echoed in the conscience of peoples, end in the public  
declarations of competent authorities has been expressed the resolution   
and decision to give to the world, at the end of the armed conflict, a   
peace that all nations can bear. We desire and hope that the prolongation   
of the war together with the progressive harshening of the methods of   
warfare and the resulting heightening of tension and exasperation of   
spirit do not end by lessening and extinguishing these healthy sentiments   
and along with them the readiness to subordinate the instincts of   
vengeance and anger, quae estinimica cxnsilio (which is the enemy of   
     counsel) to the majesty of justice and equanimity.     
 
                                                            
 
 
In any war where one of the belligerents succeeded only through  
the power of the sword and other means of irresistible coercion in  
reaching a clear and unquestioned victory, it would find itself in the  
position of being physically able to dictate an inequitable peace imposed   
by force. But it is certain that nobody, whose conscience is  
illumined by the principles of true justice, could recognise in such  
recarious solution the character of assured and prudent wisd