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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: the general tone. One read:
/"Le Saint Siege impartial...
Au-dessus de la bataille...."/
The good Cardinal would have made a good lawyer. He had as
little to say about God and the general righteousness of things
as the Bishop of London. But he got in some smug reminders of
the severance of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Perhaps
now France will be wiser. He pointed out that the Holy See in
its Consistorial Allocution of January 22nd, 1915, invited the
belligerents to observe the rules of war. Could anything more be
done than that? Oh!--in the general issue of the war, if you
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