CATHOLIC INTELLECTUALS OF MANY LANDS GET TOGETHER

By a Staff Reporter
Representatives of 25 nations gathered within the walls of St.
Edmund's College, Ware, this week, to survey the achievements of Pax Romana's new graduate division, a year after its foundation in Rome.
But besides the reports on the activities of the movement and its secretariates, and the necessary discussions concerned with the organisation and administration of this new branch of Pax Pontoon, the main theme of the conference was the discussion of the amendments to the United Nations " Draft Declaration of Human Rights."
These discussions have proved that the new Pax Romana graduate division is a unique forum in which prominant Catholic theologians, philosophers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, men of letters and the arts meet in joint sessions to study topical problems in the light of their common
principles.
The theme of the Newman Summer School that immediately preceded the Pax Romana Assembly at St. Edmund's, dealing with —the Christian approach to the unity of Europe" and its resolution that the Newman Association should give its full support to the amendments to the Draft Declaration of Human Rights, put forward by the Sword of the Spirit, formed an excellent preamble to the Pax Romana discussions.
The modifications of the draft suggested by the assembly aimed only at harmonising as much as possible the latest draft of the declaration with Catholic thought and principles, and the tactics adopted were to make a minimum of alteration to prevent the U.N. committee on Human Rights from ignoring the suggestions which will be forwarded in due course.
The assembly, which was opened by Bishop Parker, who attended the Pax Pomona congress in Budapest in pre-war days, was concluded by Pontifical Benediction, of the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Godfrey.
He reminded the audience in a preceding session of the full assembly of the great task of Pax Romana to unite the Catholic intellectuals of all the world in providing a restingplace for the dove of peace that has so often been sent out of the Bark of St. Peter in vain; the mountaintops have not yet become visible.
The unity of the Catholic Church found a most striking expression in the sacred liturgy of the Holy Mass which on Monday was celebrated by Ukrainians in England, and Fr. C. Sipovich, M.I.C., in the ByzantineSlavonic rite, with explanations in French by Fr. Todericu, the director of the Rumanian Mission in Paris. Holy Communion was given under both kinds.
During this assembly Archbishop Godfrey conferred the Knighthood of St. Gregory upon the TreasurerGeneral of Pax Romania, Guillaume de Week.