Rome, June 2. his first public reference to hi recent peace move, the Pope toda in an address before the College of Cardinals, revealed that it had met with the sympathy.of governments and had resulted in his receiving "assurances of goodwill and resolves to maintain peace.
particularly grave in the lives "At a moment which speed people—towards the beginning of last "month," His Holiness declared, "we thought it timely, after mature deliberation, to make known to some statesmen of great European nations "the anxiety the situation was causing us, and our fear lest international dissension should become aggravated to a point of degenerating into a bloody conflict.
This step met, in general, with the thy of governments, which in n left open to us a way to further of our earnest solicit
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