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                    Segreteria Di Stato                     
 
                       DiSua Santita                        
 
             Dal Vaticano, li 9 september 1944              
 
                      Your Excellency:                      
 
                                                            
 
 
At the gracious behest of His Holiness, it is my honored  
duty to convey to you His profound appreciation of Your esteemed note of   
September 4, 1944. It was with a sense of real satisfaction that His   
Holiness learned of Your Excellency's warm and, indeed, enthusiastic   
concurrence in the directives which He enunciated in His radio message to   
               the world September 1, 1944.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
It was a source of particular encouragement and consolation to   
the Sovereign Pontiff to find that Your Excellence not only approved of   
the guiding principles set forth on that occasion, but also regarded them   
as fully within the realm of realization and as milestones on the forward   
for the attainment of a greater and more enduring world happ
 
                                                            
 
 
 The reference made by His Holiness to the International   
Organization for the Preservation of Peace, in which the President of the   
United of America has manifested so great an interest, was but another   
indication of the heartfelt desire of the Holy See to foster and encourage   
any project for the establishment and fur herarice of a just and enduring   
                           peace.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
 His Holiness would have me assure you of His prayerful   
confidence that the attainment of the objectives outlined in His discourse   
and generously seconded by Your Excellency will, through the sincere   
cooperation of men of good will everywhere, be permanently secured as a   
          heavenly blessing on men and on nations.          
 
                                                            
 
 
With the renewed assurance of my cordial sentiments of highest   
           consideration, I am, Your Excellency,            
 
                   Very sincerely yours,                    
 
                     /s/ J. B. Montini                      
 
                       His Excellency                       
 
                      Mr. Myron Taylor                      
 
                 Personal Representative of                 
 
             The President of the United States             
 
               To His Holiness Pope Plus XII                
 
                  Via Boncompagni 2, Rome.