Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
POPE MAKES PLEA
FOR WORLD PEACE
Better Class Relations Are
Urged to Aid UnempIoy-
ment Situation.

VATICAN CITY, December ga
plea for better relations among the
classes as q remedy for the world prob
lem of unemployment was made by
Pope Plus XXI in his Christmas eve mes
sage yesterday.
Better social and international adj
justment, inspired by greater justice
and Christian charity" will relieve the
unemployment crisis which Is taking
"labor and bread from so many fam
flies" the Pontiff told the assembled
College of Cardinals.
This, he said, could be accomplished
without overturning the order eStab-
lished by Providence, and would render
possible among all peoples fraternal
collaboration instead of strife and
competition, harmful and sooner or
later disastrous"
Class Envoy Condemned.
It would be difficult, however, the
Pope warned, for internal peace of Gin
telligence and hearts" to reign and
endure IF the strong motives of con-
trast are made to arise and continue
among citizens and social classes from
the unequal distribution and proper
ton of advantages and burdens"
The Pontif declared this co-opera-
tive harmony must be made the basis
of relations between nations also. 1t
would be difficult II not impossible for
peace to reign, he warned, IF in place
of league of genuine love of country
there reigned an egoistic and infiexible
nationalism-that is to say, hate and
envy in place Of mutual desire of
good; dif1dence and suspicion instead
Of concord and cooperation; ambitions
OF hegemony and domination instead
of respect for and the safeguarding of
all rights, especially those Of the small
and weak"
War Would BE Suicide.
While the whole world still feels the
consequences Of the Great War, the
Pope said he could not believe any
state could be so homicidal and even
suicidal as to wish to start a new war
He pronounced his wishes for chat
peace which angels at Christmas an
nounced to the earth in Christ's name
1t should be the real peace of Christ and
not confused and indistinct sentiment
of pacifism, because the only real peace
is that which comes from God, the only
one capable of giving this precious and
enduring fruit"
AS on previous occasions, the Pontiff
expressed his objection to Protestant
missionary activity in Italy, especially in
Rome, where he said propaganda was
being circulated in violation of Lateran
treaties, which expressly safeguarded
"Rome's sacred character"
AssaiIs Protestant Impudence.
The Pontiff said he was panied and
grieved to see "even more intense and
vast and impudent Protestant propa-
ganda, sometimes open and reasoned
sometimes subtle and deceitful"
This, he said, was in spite Of law
which, while it gave non-Catholics the
faculty of protesting their religion, did
not allow their proSelytizing, particu-
larry against the Catholic Church. which
is the sole religion of the Italian state
He had profound faith, he said, that it
would cease In the interests of Italy
herself.
The Pope announced he would soon
have ready an encyclical dealing with
matrinony, which would be dated this
year. He mentioned the recent marriage
of King Boris of Bulgaria to the former
Princess Giovanni, saying there were
some small errors of belief in connec-
ton with the ceremony, for example,
the erroneous thought that the mar
rage bad been re-enacted at Sofia,
while as a matter of fact it had already
taken place at Assist.
xe9FS SOrrOWS REVIEWED
The Pontiff reviewed the many
disasters of this year-earthquak
tempeStS and floods, saying he had
shared the sorrows of all his children,
prayed for them and, as far as possible,
had sent. material aid.
Then he asked the cardinals to pray
for all "who suffer for the profession
and defense of the faith, as in Mexico,
Russia and Siberia, preparing by their
suferingS the regeneration of those
countries and peoples"
He asked special prayers for mis-
sionarieS, above all those in China.
whose sufferingS, he said, were not
brought on among the peaceful Chinese,
but among few violent ones who are
urged on by propaganda subversive of
all civil order"
The Pope declared blessed "alI initia-
tives destined to alleviate the sufferings
Of the present and to prepare a better
future"