-4-#80, Tenth, from Vatican City  
 
 
these objectives are to be attained but too great adherence to incidental   
details should not block the path of progress toward its attainment.  The   
first step in the new world toward understanding and real neighborliness   
is to bind up the wounds of this war.  We shall always be proud that our   
sense of humanitarian helpfulness toward a fallen and badley stricken   
adversary now a co-belligerent but in fact an Ally led us promptly to   
achieve a measure of relief for the suffering Italy.  That pattern should   
prove to be our guide wherever human life is endangered or in distress.    
The whole fabric of our wisest plan for peace may fall to piece if our   
first effort ot create it is clouded by a spirt of vengeance not tempered   
by mercy.  The preservation of world peace must be taken from the arena of   
political debate and traffic of prejudice, of greed and statements   
ineptitude which so completely failed.  These vital controls of world   
action must be placed in the keeping of a special body which will devote   
itself to the study of peace and thwart by peaceful persuasion if possible   
of force if necessary in its incipiency the growth of war psychology amd   
war preparation.  These then are the ardent hoopes of manking when the   
dawn soon breaks upon a new era in world affairs.  Your generosity has   
spanned the high seas. It has penetrated the mountains   
 
 
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