APPEAL FOR PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1942, Page 3

APPEAL FOR PEACE

MADE BY THE POPE. ON EVE OF EPISCOPAL JUBILEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, May 13. Broadcasting on the eve of his episcopal jubilee, the Pope made an appeal for peace with greater insistence in view of the menace of weapons of greater destructiveness. “I feel the urgent need to open my lips and speak frankly,” he said. Before the outbreak and also during the war, I worked with all my power for peace. I am now giving one more message of peace. “I know such a practical suggestion is likely to offend one party or the other, but when I see the destruction and suffering and think of the brave fighting men and of the dead, of ,the mothers, wives and sons, of the separation and breaking up of families, and the economic penury in which the crime of this war is manifested, then I think the sooner an end is put to the war the better. More tears have flowed from these hardships and misfortunes than in all the course of humanity. “As a man of perfect political impartial and equal love of all peoples, I can make such an offer, but the present political situation, with its ravages on moral and material values, with cruelty and unprecedented violence, can hardly allow of such an offer being accepted. “I appeal to the heads of the nations and give them warm advice to conclude peace on the principles of justice and moderation even if it doesn’t seem to correspond with their expectations. “In all countries where formerly a lot of intelligence and goodwill was spent in solving social problems, fortunes are now being spent on destruction. “A new front had been formed —a front of families in anguish. The family is sacred. The duty of husbands and wives is fulfilling their physical and spiritual union by creating a new generation that is what God wanted. We pray that God may imbue us with the spirit of love, so that we may be ready to hold out our arms to one another and co-operate after the most extensive and cruel slaughter in the most formidable and immense work of rebuilding and healing. We pray that we may rebuild from the mass of material and moral ruin a united and peaceful new world.” AXIS BOYCOTT BROADCAST IGNORED EVEN IN ITALY. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. Axis radio stations boycotted the Pope’s world broadcast appeal for peace. Even Italian stations ignored the broadcast. A summary of the Pope’s appeal was given in 8.8. C. news sessions.