Would this not suffice?
(12) "Those who themselves or through others, invade, destroy, or detain cities, lands, places, or rights of the Roman Church, those who hold possession of, disturb, or detain its sovereign jurisdiction, and all who give aid, counsel, or countenance to these offences."
I guess there are a lot of private agreements that are conducted behind the awareness of the general public; Such as the ha'avarah agreement
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The Transfer Agreement is the stunning, compassionate account of the "deal with the devil" that saved 60,000 Jews from the Holocaust. The deal was made in 1933 as a calculated mutual opportunity between the Jewish leadership in Palestine and the Third Reich. The terms: that the Jewish-led boycott of German goods would cease in return for the transfer of German Jews to the Holy Land. Eventually one-tenth of Germany's Jews were saved, thus helping to form the seedbed of modern Israel. Would the war, or Israel, have been possible without this pact?
Edwin Black reveals for the first time the inside details of the controversial pact and re-creates the drama: the personalities, the cliff-hanger negotiations, and the anguish of world Jewry over their choice. And Black does more. He provides a true understanding of Israel's founding, and the heartbreaking realities of the Jews' plight in Hitler's Europe.
The Transfer Agreement presents certain truths that have long eluded historians - the financial nexus that served Hitler's obsessions with expelling the Jews as an essential prelude to conquering Europe, together with the Zionists' resolve to bring their dispossessed people to Palestine. The American Jewish involvement is of special interest as the author reconstructs the magnitude of the pro- and anti-boycott meetings and the passion invested in them.
The author spend five years on three continents researching and writing this work. He was aided by a team of translators and researchers who unearthed previously suppressed and widely dispersed documents and archives. Already acclaimed by a dozen diverse experts and Holocaust scholars, The Transfer Agreement was described by Dr. Sybil Milton of the Simon Wiesenthal Center as a "spellbinding, exciting book." |
