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                     To His Excellency                      
 
                                                            
 
                  Franklin Delano Roosevelt                 
 
         President of the United States of America          
 
                                                            
 
 
Once again We have welcomed with especial satisfaction your Personal   
Representative, His Excellency Mr. Myron C. Taylor, whose untiring and   
devoted efforts serve so effectively  to foster the relations between your   
                     Excellency and Us.                     
 
                                                            
 
 
We continue to strive with every means at our disposal for the foundation  
 of a world order that will have as its basis the fundamental principles   
of justice and charity, ans it is our confident prayer that in the post   
war work men and nations may unite in a new spirit of understanding and   
callaboration.  As Your Excellency has remarked, Our labors for the  
alleviation of suffering and for peace encounter obstacles and difficulties,  
 but We place our trust in God  and are confident that We shall enjoy the   
      understanding collaboration of all good people.       
 
                                                            
 
 
In reviewing to Your Excellency the expression of Our good wishes, We   
assure you of Our fervent prayers for your personal welfare and for that   
       of the people of the United States of America.       
 
                     From the Vatican,                      
 
                    September 25, 1942.                     
 
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