Before enunciating the five peace precepts, the Pope referred to war which, with tragic and almost, fatal peraisience, once lot loose proceeds 62 Ils way, "forgetful of the prineiples of humanity, indifferent to the usages of the conventions of war, and goes.to such extremes that an age less troubled than ours will one day note its events as among the saddest and darkest of the world's history.
"Our thoughts run forward anxious ly to the moment when the sad chronicles of many sufferings, fands. In anguish, of the wounded, prisoners and refugees, downtrodden, famished, fainting and weeping, come in their entirety: to light. But what we know at present ig already sutelent to oppress and tear the heart. mong the many misfortunes From this conflict, the mis fortunes of prisoners of war continue grieve us. Although our aims for relief of material and moral distress of many prisoners have been futile fu some countries our efforts have not everywhere been in vain. We were able to relieve the burden of Polish prisoners and of Italian. pri= foners and internees, especially. in Egypt, Australia and Canada.
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