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I was also important at this point to develop in the  
minds of the Pope and of the authorities of the Holy See  
the necessity for and the general scheme of an international  
organization for the preservation of Eorld order and peace.  
You will recall that I worked with the Committee of the  
State Departmenh, with Sumner Welles and later with Secretary  
Hull im evolving the basis for these and other postwar pro-  
jects, assisted in their drafting, and personally reviewed  
them with Chief Justice Hughes, Honorable John Davis, and  
Governor Miller. I was thus fully familiar with these plans  
and could present them to His Holiness. These arguments  
which I consecutively presented were followed ultimately by presenting to   
His Holiness an authorized copy of the proposed  
Dumbarton Oaks Plan for an international organization. In  
his last allocution the Pope explained the need for and  
supported such a plan (September l, 1944)* and did me the  
honor to attribute his reference to it to my personal  
suggestion. The Pope really laid the groundwork for un-  
conditional surrender and rebuilding of a better temporal  
                           State.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
A great number of related problems have been considered,  
eported to you, Mr. President, and acted upon in many fields
 
                      *See Appendix II