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                  Lisbon, October 2, 1942.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
                         MEMORANDUM                         
 
                                                            
 
 
                        Mr. Taylor:                         
 
                                                            
 
 
 the following observations with respect to religion in Russ
 
                                                            
 
 
ith those of my colleagues in the Department of State, whose
 
                                                            
 
 
spiritual devotion of their own followers. This caused them 
 
                                                            
 
 
successful in smashing the Church's economic position, its o
 
                                                            
 
 
arty and the Communistic League of Youth, with their subsidi
 
                                                            
 
 
ealogy into something like a competing religious life in its