August 23, 1943.  
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE
 
 
 
Does this require any reply?  
If not, please return for my  
files.
 
 
 
F. D. R.
 
 
 
Letter from Hon. Sumner Welles, 8/21/43,  
to the President, marked "Urgent", attaching letter he received from The Most Reverend  
A. G. Cicognani, Archbishop of Laodicea, Apostolic Delegate, 3339 Massachusetts Ave.,   
Washington, D.C., 8/20/43, attached to which is a memorandum regarding the Italian war   
situation which the Holy See wishes to place before the U.S. government.