June 29. 1943
 
 
 
My dear Mr. President:
 
     
 
 
I refer to your memorandum of June 28 enclosing a letter from the Apostolic Delegate to   
Mr. Myron Taylor with further reference to the bombardment of Rome and certain suggestions of   
Mr. Taylor concerning the nature of the reply to be made.
 
     
 
 
It is believed that the enclosed letter to the Apostolic Delegate for your signature, which   
was drafted in compliance with your memorandum of June 23, embodies an appropriate reply to the   
first two points in your memorandum under reference. With respect to the third point based upon   
Mr. Taylor's suggestions, certain practical difficulties are foreseen. If proposals for the   
removal from Rome of military objectives were made to the Vatican, it would be necessary in all   
Justice to withhold our bombardment of Rome and vicinity during the period of negotiations. These   
might well be protracted to a degree
 
 
 
The President,
 
 
 
The White House.