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Title: Approaches to the great settlement
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 Angell, Pauline Knickerbocker, 1886-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 International law and relations
Publisher: New York, B. W. Huebsch
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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assacre. It ap-peals to the motive of sympathy. It emphasizes theresponsibility of rulers, the immeasurable gain of adurable peace with disarmament. Discussion of the Papal Note. The public dis-cussion which followed dealt partly with the sub-stance of the proposals in the note, partly with itssource, and the religious politics involved. The note was of course said to be correlated withthe peace efforts of the Catholic Center In Germanyand especially Erzbergers peace drive, and withthe desire for peace in Austria, supposed to be theland nearest the Popes heart. Some even assertedthe most direct collaboration between the CentralPowers and the Vatican. There were also the sus-picions of certain anti-religious and non-Catholicgroups. As for the Socialist and radical forces, theydesired that peace should be brought about by popu-lar forces; they neither wished that prestige shouldaccrue to the church nor that an ecclesiastically con-servative tone should be borne by the peace settle-(114)
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Copyright by Underwood and Underwood POPE BENEDICT XV ment. On the other hand, many Catholics foundtheir Church loyalty running more or less counterto their national prepossessions and purposes.Care seems to have been taken not openly to mobil-ize the Cathohc body as such in favor of the Popesproposals. The question was also raised as to what political motivesmight underlie the Popes note. Attention was called tovarious Catholic utterances in this connection which seemedto show that there is a Vatican diplomacy eager to take allthe opportunities offered by the present situation in orderto resolve in its own interest some problems in connectionwith the Temporal Papacy and the Roman Church. ^ Thus was cited an article by Monsignor Benigni, a mod-ernist churchman, in the Nuova Antologia^ in favor of thePopes being represented at the Peace Conference. It maybe remembered that the Pope was excluded from The HagueCongresses, through the absolute refusal of Italy to consentto his presence, o

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