Evening star., 1947-12-21
Pope Biting|y AssaiIs
Aqitators Who Stir Up
Seditions and TumuIts
By the Associoted Press

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Plus XII called for prayers for world
order today and assailed, in words
as biting as any he ever has used,
those agitators who stir up man
against man lin seditions and
tumultS."
In a, 1,100-word encyclical titled
"optatissima pax" (most desired
peace the Pontiff declared class
hatred threatens ito undermine and
overturn the very foundations" of
nations.
Although he named no names, it
was clear to all who read his Christ
mastide message to the hierarchy
of the Catholic Church that he had
in mind the Communists of France
and Italy when he said:
There are not lacking those who
aggravate and batten on the misery
OF the proletarian classes and hence
obstruct those noble forces with
which, with strict order and with
justice, the rebuilding of fortunes
now dispersed is attempted"
Troubles Break Out.
The encyclical was the latest of
the many appeals for peace the Pope
has addressed to the world since his
coronation March IL, 1939-six
months before the outbreak Of the
greatest war in history.
Even as the encyclical was made
public, new leftist-led labor trouble
harassed the Italian government. A
nationwide strike in the food in
dustries began and riots broke out
in Naples and in Sicily.
1t Is necessary, Pope Plus said,
that all understand that it is not
with discord, with tumults, with
fraternal massacres that lost goods
may be regained or those in danger
saved, but only with active concord,
with mutual understanding; with
peaceful labor" He added:
Those who, with a premeditated
plan, thoughtlessly raise up the
crowd, exciting it to tumult, to Sc
dition and to offenses against the
liberty of others, without a doubt
do not operate to mitigate the pow
erty of the people, but rather in
crease 1t and provoke extreme ruin
s**"
The Pope said that in times of
such great social crisis it is "neces-
sary for each-and especially he
who has greater goods-to put the
common welfare before private ad-
vantages and profits
Secret Hatreds Deplored.
"And before everything else" he
said, ut Is absolutely urgent to
pacify spirits, bring them back to
fraternal consensus, to mutual un-
derstanding, to reciprocal co-opera-
ton, so as to be able to carry out
those doctrines and those directive
norms that are consentient with
Christian teachings and the condi-
tions of the present hour"
In nations left wasted after the
disastrous war, the Pontiff said, "the
social classes mutually agitated by
a bitter hatred, with innumerable
tumults and turbulences, threaten.
as all see, to undermine and over
turn the very foundations of states" I"
The encyclical implored all peo-
pies ito extinguish the secret hatreds
and happily renew concord" The
Pontiff urged Catholics the world
over to pray for peace on their holy
holiday and to seek of the Divine
Infant that he may deign to ex-
tinguish and remove the torches that
are threateningly shaken in hatred,
in seditions and tumults."
1t was announced that the Pom
tiff's Christmas Eve address in reply
to the customary greetings of the
College OF Cardinals will be broad
cast to the world by the Vatican
radio station December "a.
An English-language translation
for the United States will be trans
mitted at II am, ETS. The original
speech, in Italian, will be broadcast
at 4:55 am, EST.