THE POPE AND PEACE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 5

THE POPE AND PEACE

x t LETTER TO BELLIGERENTS

' "fiUCCESTS EXCHANGE OF VIEWS. i foyTelegraph-i/iv ■ , Rome, July 30. His Holiness the Pope, in a letter to the belligerents, expresses Ms deterinination to devote his every,activity to , the reconciliation of the peoples engaged 'in a fratricidal struggle. He adjures .-" them to put away the mutual desire : .for . destruction, and reflect that na'tions do not die. If humiliated and op- . pressed they prepared to retaliate by transmitting from generation to genera-, tion their hatred and desire of revenge. His Holiness suggests a direct or m- . direct "exchange of views, with an endeavour, if possible, to arrange the aspirations so that all will be contented. : The letter concludes: "Wo invite all the friends' ; of peace to unite with us in our desire to terminate the war. and

re-establish the Empire of Right/ re- \ solving henceforth' to solve- our differ- \ ences not by the sword but equity and ) -justice." HIS HOLINESS'S mistake. Rome, July 31. ■ ' . The "Messagero" says the Pope was ;' mistaken in not addressing his letter directly and exclusively to the real au- ' / i'hors of the war —the Austro-Germaris. Other Italian newspapers declare the War will not be finished except as a vici tory for the Allies.