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Show Pope Paul VI is first reigning pontiff to visit America. He returned re-turned to Vatican yesterday after 14-hour visit to this country. Pope Paul Visits New York On Peace Mission Pontiff Speaks Before U.N., Has Presidential Conference By SUE PRATT Chronicle Staff Writer "No more war, war never again," Pope Paul VI pleaded before the United Nations, during dur-ing his unprecedented 14 hours in the United States yesterday. POPE PAUL, the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere, was early to stress the nature of his journey. jour-ney. "May God grant that this visit be for mankind's greater good," he stated as he left the plane. The Pilgrim Pope, who has journeyed further in his 27 months' reign than all predecessors predeces-sors put together, traveled a 24-mile 24-mile circular route of New York City making it possible for an estimated million onlookers to view him. A 50-minute press conference con-ference with President Johnson followed, making the fourth time a United Statees President has met a pope and the first time on United States' soil. CLIMAXING THE visit, Pope Paul spoke before the United Nations General Assembly. He urged the 117-nation assembly to find ways to guarantee international interna-tional security "without recourse to arms." He added, however, that "as long as man remains that weak, changeable and even wicked being that he often shows himself to be, defensive arms will, unfortunately be necessary." neces-sary." "Peace," the Pope continued, "is constructed with the mind, with ideas, with works of peace. You labor in this great construction. construc-tion. But you are still at the beginnings. be-ginnings. Will the world ever succeed in changing that selfish and bellicose mentality which up to now has been interwoven in so much of its history? "IT IS HARD to foresee; but it is easy to affirm that it is towards a peaceful truly human history, as promised by God to men of good will, that we must resolutely march. The roads are (Continued on Page 2) Pope Visits New York (Continued from Page 1) already well marked out for you; and the first is that of disarmament," disarm-ament," the pontiff emphasized. "Today," he stated, "as never before in our era so marked for human progress, there is a need for an appeal to the moral conscience con-science of man. For the danger comes, not from progress, not from science indeed, if properly proper-ly utilized, these could rather resolve many of the grave problems prob-lems which assail mankind." "NO," HE continued, "the real danger comes from man himself, wielding ever more powerful arms, which can be employed equally well for destruction of, or for, the loftiest conquests." In what appeared to be a reference ref-erence to the absence of Communist Com-munist China and the divided nations of the world from the United Nations, he offered this counsel: "Strive to bring back among you any who have separated sep-arated themselves, and study the right method of uniting to your pact of brotherhood, in honor and loyalty, those who do not share in it." THE PONTIFF, speaking out against the U.S. endorsement of birth control, said, "You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, man-kind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth." Pope Paul completed his United States' journey Monday afternoon and re-boarded the plane for Rome. |