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                       27 August 1944                       
 
        To The Honorable Myron Taylor, Rome, Italy.         
 
                    Dear Mr. Ambassador:                    
 
                                                            
 
 
Herewith attached, I am sending you an informal  
report on certain trends of Italian Political thought.  
I should have liked to have made it shorter, but there  
are some things you cannot telescope too much. Then  
too, remembering Voltaire's well known dedication of  
a book to a friend of his, when he apologized for the  
book being in two volumes, because he had not had time  
to write it in one| -- I am therefore counting on  
your indulgence for its length. With kind regards, I  
                            am,                             
 
                   Very sincerely yours,                    
 
                  (signed) Albert Spalding