opportune time to warn Your Holiness that I have no reason to feel assured that Axis planes would  
not not make an opportunity to bomb Vatican City with the purpose of charging Allied planes with  
the outrages they themselves have commited.
 
     
 
 
My country has no choice but to prosecute the war with all force against the enemy until every  
resistance has been overcome.  Your Holiness will understand, I a confident, that in this struggle  
for human liberty no exception can be made to the full prosecution of the war against any legitimate  
military enemy objective.  Any other course would only delay the fulfillment of that desire in   
which Your Holiness and the governments and peoples of the United nations--and I believe the people   
of Italy likewise--are joined--the return of peace on earth. Unquote.
 
     
 
 
(handwritten) His letter to me was not a request not to bomb but he speaks of the historic places and also   
speaks of the Holy See which I suppose includes the Churches ? the Vatican.
 
Roosevelt