A JUST PEACE
IT is but natural for His Holiness the Pope to ask that there shall 1 be a .searching for a just peace, and for him to express the hope that such a peace will not be rejected if it comes within the range of acceptance. It is equally natural for the Axis Powers to be apprehensive of the reaction of their respective peoples to such :■ suggestion. The Italians went, unwillingly into this war and tinGermans went in apprehensively: now both arc war weary.bill His Holiness asks not for peace : he seeks a just peace, and justm is something which is foreign to those who engage in pure!'. Power Polities. Further, when men adopt frankly the Machiavellian doctrine that, to deceive one's enemies, il by so doing one ear divide and weaken them, is a justifiable course, they can only bi dealt with on tlieir own terms, and that is to assume that ever.' word that they utter is purely dissimulation. To-day a just peace is not practicable, because with the Axis Powers there is no sens, of justice. For them. “the good old rule, the simple plan, that In should fake who hath the power and he should keep who cam’ is the whole of their moral equipment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 4
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211A JUST PEACE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 4
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