MYRON C. TAYLOR                       
 
                        71 BROADWAY                         
 
                          NEW YORK                          
 
                      December 22 1942                      
 
                    Dear Mr. President:                     
 
                                                            
 
 
With respect to a suggestion which I recently sought from you and from the   
Department of State concerning a statement regarding Freedom of Religion   
in Russia which would be adequate if the Soviet authorities were disposed   
to make it and mean it, I discussed the matter at length with Archbishop   
Edward Mooney, Bishop Joseph P. Hurley, Monsignor Michael J. Ready and   
others. Archbishop Mooney undertook, after much thought, to draft a  
paragraph or two which, if it were acceptable to the Russians,  
              would in his opinion be useful.               
 
                                                            
 
 
In the attached memorandum I am enclosing am excerpt from a part of   
the