the lacunae and defects of the past, should be really capable  
of preserving peace according to the principles of justice and  
equity, against all possible threat in the future. Since today  
in the light of such terrible experience, the desire to secure  
a new world-wide peace institution of this kind is ever more  
occupying the attention and the care of statesmen and peoples,  
We gladly express our pleasure and fonu the hope that its actual  
achievement may really correspond in the largest possible measure  
to the nobility of its end which is the maintenance of tranquillity  
     and security in the world for the benefit of all.      
 
                                                            
 
 
But nobody perhaps looks forward as anxiously to tbe end of  
the conflict and the rebirth of mutual concord as the millions of  
prisoners and civilian internees compelled by the war to eat the hard  
bread of captivity and forced labor in a foreign land. Their sorrow  
for the protracted absence from mothers, valves and children, for the  
long separation fron all the peoples and things they love consumes  
and wears them doEn, and arouses in them a poignant sense of isola-  
tion and abandonment such as only those can measure who can pete trate  
the deep agony of their hearts. And since this war, together with  
its consequences whether necessaryor arbitrary, has led to the most  
gigantic and tragic migration of peoples known to history, it will  
be an achievement of high altruism, of clear-sighted justice and  
 wise organization, if these unfortunates are not kept waiti