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                   I am your Excellency,s                   
 
                       very sincerely                       
 
(sgd) STAN ISLA0 PECCI Minister of the Sovereign Order  
                 of Malta to the Holy See.                  
 
                       His Excellency                       
 
                    Mr. Myron C. Taylor                     
 
       Personal Representative of President Roosevelt       
 
                  to His Holiness Pio XII,                  
 
                           Rome.