Headline: "CIVILIZED WAR URGED"
BERNE, Switzerland, Jan 25 -- "Even during a war there are human rights, moral values and signed pledges that cannot be ignored by either belligerent" said the Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, in an editorial analyzing Pope Pius XII's Christmas message."Among the inhuman and disloyal violations of these rights, values and pledges recorded so far," it continues, "are the attacks against open towns, hospitals and churches, the infliction of collective repressive measures on the populations of occupied countries, the taking of hostages and the deportation of whole populations."
"We must not permit that it be possible that this new world war with its jumble of fears and ruin bring about yet once again the downfall of civilization."