Stepinac was a logical man. The ruthlessness of such advocacy was typically Catholic. It was the basic Catholic policy emanating directly from the Vatican. Such intervention would have meant general war, and hence the use of atomic bombs. Mindszenty could well think and act in this fashion, in the comforting knowledge that behind him stood the Vatican, bent upon furthering its vast political schemes, on the assumption of a third world conflict.
Actions speak louder than words.
Pius XII at this same period was not idle. British and, above all, American generals came and went in endless procession to and from His Holiness. Archbishops and Cardinals consequently spoke and acted on the assumption of war, and hence the use of atomic bombs. The Vatican, which within an astonishingly brief period had developed the most intimate relations with certain malign forces in the USA, was not merely indulging in wishful thinking when it passed on such information to its emissaries abroad. It informed them of what was going on behind the scenes in certain quarters.