THE WHITE HOUSE                       
 
                         WASHINGTON                         
 
                      August 18, 1944.                      
 
           MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECREATRY OF STATE:           
 
         For preparationof reply for my signature.          
 
                            FDR                             
 
                                                            
 
 
Letter to the President, 8-7-44, from Hon. Myron Taylor, enclosing copy of   
statement which he recd. from  Prof. Dr. Lobo d'Avila Lima, Portuguese   
Ambassador at Rome, dated July 15 and sent to the Ambassador by Signor   
Dino Grandi, who gives an account of what actually happened during the   
                  over-throw of Mussolini.