Pope Urges Truce Over Christmas
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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 20.
Pope Paul has urged that the United States accept the Communist offer of a Christmas cease-fire in Vietnam.
He said the war was growing “graver and more bloody.” He told crowds gathered for the traditional noon blessing in St Peters square, that a Christmas cease-fire could lead to the conference table and pave the way to securing peace.
The Pope had been silent for several months on the increasing seriousness of the conflict in South-east Asia, although last summer he had spoken out at numerous audiences on the grave threat building up there. He said that as Christmas nears he could not remain silent. “Our soul is full of sadness
for so many divisions, struggles and antagonisms which trouble all humanity in many places . . . and especially in Vietnam,” he said. He said that the number of militants, the number of victims, the number of refugees were all growing and with them “grows the danger of a vaster war.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 21
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