DEPARTMENT OF STATE                    
 
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                        Vatican City                        
 
                  Dated December 23, 1944                   
 
                       Rec'd 8:38 PM.                       
 
                     Secretary of State                     
 
                         Washington                         
 
                           URGENT                           
 
                     417, Twenty-third                      
 
         URGENT FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY         
 
                                                            
 
 
Following is a translated digest of remarks which Prime Mnister Bonomi   
proposes to broadcast following my own broadcast on behalf of American   
relief for Itlay proably Sunday morning 11:30 Washington time or   
                       Christmas day:                       
 
                                                            
 
 
"Between Italy and the United States another spiritual bond of   
understanding and symphay has in these days taken form; great   
difficulties have been overcome and American Relief of Italy has   
                     become a reality.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
It is a comfort to our grief-laden hearts to see that notwithstanding   
the hard necessities imposed by the war and while the struggle   
continues unabated the sentiments of human solidarity have not been   
                         overcome.                          
 
                                                            
 
 
Hardley three months have elapsed since by direction of President   
Roosevelt with the enthusiastic support and patronage of his personal   
                    representative, the                     
 
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