-2-#17, January 18, 6p.m., from Vatican City.        
 
                                                            
 
 
authorities do not have the faculty to cede the civil power to a   
foreign nation.  The heads of the army if compelled by military   
defeat can find themselves obliged by necessity to sign an   
armistice or to make a peace which may have clauses restricting   
exercise of civil powers.  There remains  to the victor always the   
l obligation not to exceed the limits of human and civil jus
 
                                                            
 
 
Five.  In conclusion, according to democratic principles, the   
cesssion of all rights and powers to a foreign nation could happen   
legitimately in only one way:  
That is when the people themselves either by means of a free   
referendum or by means of a sonstituent assembly freely elected   
would manifest freely and consciously their will to arrive at such   
a complete cession in favor of a foreign authority. In this   
hypothesis the people who are the despository of all rights and   
powers would transfer them knowingly and willingly to others who   
         were to (*) before into that same people."         
 
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              (*) Apparent omission serviced.