Your Excellency:
 
     
 
 
In further reference to the question of the immunity of the city of Rome from aerial attack,   
I have just received a communication from His Eminence Cardinal Maglione, Secretary of State to   
His Holiness.
 
     
 
 
His Eminence now informs me that the Holy See presented addittnnal Notes to the Italian   
Government on February 28th and May 22nd, with the purpose of obtaining the removal from Rome   
and the immediate vicinity of all military objectives.
 
     
 
 
In respongee to these communications the Italian Ambassador to the Vatican, by order of his   
Government, presented a Note on June 9th, outlining the steps taken for the demilitarization of   
Rome.
 
     
 
 
In accordance with its Note of December 20, 1942, to the Cardinal Secretary of State, the   
Italian Government has been effecting the removal from Rome of the military Commands, and has in   
fact transferred the Supreme Command and the General Staffs of the Army, Navy and Air Forces.
 
     
 
 
The Supreme Command and the General Staffs are now in rural districts. At present the only   
military offices remaining in Rome are the local military office, the historical military office,   
and other offices of financial and administrative character. However these too are in the process   
of being removed from the City.
 
     
 
 
Similar steps have been taken in regard to the German offices of liaison, which have either   
already followed the respective Italian Commands or are about to do so.
 
 
 
His Excellency
 
 
 
Mr. Myron C. Taylor
 
 
 
Ambassador to the Holy See