COPY FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA             
 
                    Rome, August 9, 1944                    
 
                   My Dear Mr. Secretary:                   
 
                                                            
 
 
 30,000,000 Catholics in the United States were favorable to
 
                                                            
 
 
continued with consequent loss of life and destructionof pro
 
                                                            
 
 
that before Archbishop Spellman left America he called upon 
 
                                                            
 
 
ated peace, along lines undisclosed to us directly, and so t
 
                                                            
 
 
is no possiblity of a negotiated peace and that the only ter
 
                                                            
 
 
 the Presisent personally the copy of this letter which is e
 
                       Sincerely yours,                     
 
                         {Myron Taylor}                     
 
                       The Honorable                        
 
                        Cordell Hull                        
 
                     Secretary of State                     
 
                         Washington