[Homer_J_Simpson]

Take Vichy Colony – 2-3
7 Beachheads Held – 4-5
Heroic Defense of Wake Isle an Epic in Marines’ Annals – 6-7
The International Situation – 7
Roosevelt, Churchill Voice Faith to War-Weary World – 8-9
Pope Broadcasts Five Peace Points – 9-10
Germany Tastes Defeat-II (Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/dec41/f25dec41.htm

Hong Kong surrendered to Japanese
Thursday, December 25, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Hong Kong...The British and Canadian manned garrison at Hong Kong surrender to the Japanese.

On Eastern Front... Soviet offensives continue to succeed before Moscow.

In North Africa... The advancing Allies reach Benghazi and Agebadia. The Axis forces continue to withdraw.

In the Philippines... The US defensive strategy continues with their withdrawal to the second line of defense at the Agno River. Japanese attacks continue.

[CougarGA7]

• Admiral Chester Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor by navy flying boat to take command of the Pacific Fleet.

• Heinz Guderian is relieved as commander of Panzer Group 2.

• Hong Kong falls to the Japanese.

[BroJoeK]

headline: "Pope Broadcasts Five Peace Points – 9-10"

For those interested in the question of whether the Pope ever spoke specifically and publicly about Nazi atrocities against Jews or the Catholic clergy, this speech is a pretty good item in evidence.

I don't see any specifics in this speech -- neither Jews nor any other ethnic group are named, nor is there any general idea conveyed as to the horrors being perpetrated on tens and hundreds of thousands of innocents, not to mention millions of Soviet POWs.

Of course there were reasons, and those might be debated, but that is not the same thing as claiming the Pope spoke out forcefully against the greatest mass murders in human history.

He did not.