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"this Apocalyptic foresight of disaster"; "tragic whirlpool"; "death and desolation, lamentation and misery." He could only hope that, when victory came to either side, there will be a just peace made without the "temptations of victory." And to bring that about His Holiness put his trust in those "statesmen who before the outbreak of war nobly toiled to avert such a scourge from the peoples" (evidently not Herr Hitler); and those "millions of souls in all countries and of every sphere who call not for justice alone but for love and mercy" (obviously not the Nazis).

If the "peace offensive" needed anything further to bring it to an end, it was Herr Ribbentrop's announcement in Danzig that the war was on.