DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                     INCOMING TELEGRAM                      
 
           DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS           
 
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                   Rome December 30, 1944                   
 
                      Rec'd 11:41 a.m.                      
 
                           URGENT                           
 
                    AMVAT 423, Thirtieth                    
 
            FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY             
 
                                                            
 
 
Revised text of my broadcast of American relief for Italy to be   
      made on December 31 4:30 p.m. Rome time follows.      
 
                                                            
 
 
"As chairman of American relief for Italy I am speaking to you   
from ancient Rome. Rome with its history spanning the centuries, Rome   
pagan and then the Christian center from its ashes it has risen time and   
time again to outlive the folly of its rulers to begin the upward struggle   
for freedom and the pursuit of happiness as a new year dawns once more   
upon a wartorn world of millions of our men and women drawn overseas by a   
vicious assault upon universal liberty and justice are looking through   
their minds eye into your homes. They see in retrospect your family and   
                friends about your firesides