THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 26, 1939
POPE'S FIVE POINTS FOR A JUST PEACE: VATICAN CONDEMNS AGGRESSION
Rome, To-day.
“ATROCITIES AND THE unlawful use of means of destruc- tion even against non-combatants and evacuees, against women, old people and children, and contempt of liberty and human life, are acts which call for Divine vengeance."
This declaration was made by His Holiness the Pope in his
Christmas message to the College of Cardinals.
"We have had to witness a series of acts incompatible with international and natural law and humanity. These acts reveal how much the juridical sense has been distorted by totalitarian considerations.
"This
category
includes
pre-
meditated aggression against a small, labourlous and pacific nation on the pretence of a menace which never existed and was not even possible."
Declaring he envisaged with horror the consequences of the war, the Pope declared: "Those responsible for the destiny of peoples should be able to deline at an opportune moment the fundamental points of a just and honourable peace, and not refuse to negotiate if the occasion arises."
FIVE POINTS
His Holiness gives five points as the foundations of a just international peace.
of indepen-
Firstly, an assurance dence to all nations;
Secondly, an end to the armaments
race;
PROMOTION FOR URSULA COMMANDER
LONDON, TO-DAY.
AN ADMIRALTY COMMUNIQUE } ANNOUNCES THAT THE D.6.0. HAS BEEN CONFERRED ON LT.- COMM. PHILLIPS, OF THE SUB- MARINE URSULA, WHICH RE- CENTLY DESTROYED AN ENEMY CRUISER OFF HELIGOLAND.
Lt-Comm. Phillips is also promoted to Commander from December 22.
Other decorations and promotions of officers and men in Ursula are also made, and all are congratulated upon their great success-Reuter.
PEACE EFFORTS
RED WAY
OF LOOKING AT IT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Moscow, To-day.
The "Krasny Flot," organ of the Red Navy, publishes an edi. torial on "Anglo-itallan antago- nism in the Near East."
The Journal says Turkey has become "Great Britain's police- man while Italy is an Imperial- letlo brigand who has not suc- ceeded well In his career and Is paid by the British for remaining neutral."-Havas.
BELGRADE AGREEMENT WITH ALLIES
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") BELGRADE, TO-DAY.
CON-
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT TRADE AGREEMENT HAS BEEN CLUDED BETWEEN YUGO-SLAVIA AND FRANCE, WHILE A SIMILAR EX- ACCORD WITH BRITAIN IS PECTED SHORTLY.
The
Yugo-Slav-French accord, which enters into operation on Janu- ary 1, 1940, provides approximately exports of 1,000,000,000 dinars a year to France of Yugo-Slav goods, main- ly raw materials which have been
The goods consist chiefly of materi- als which had been previously sup- plied to France by Austria, Czecho- Slovakia and Finland.-Havas.
Thirdly, juridical institutions must guarantee that the loyal and lawful application of an agreement is of supreme importance to honourable acceptance of a peace treaty, and that imbued with a sense of their respon-yearly exports to France. arbitrary and unilateral interpreta-sibilities. tions of the conditions of the treaty must be avoided;
Fourthly, the needs and just de- mands of nations and peoples, and also ethnic minorities, must particu. larly be considered, If necessary by means of just and wlae acceptance of the revisions of treaties; and
Fifthly, the Pope emphasised that those who
govern peoples must be
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At the close of his address the Pope thanked President Roosevelt for his noble and generous effort to restore peace.
His Holiness said that other high personalities also, whose names he did not wish to mention, had approached him with efforts to restore peace.- Reuter.
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