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              THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS               
 
                  Rome, February 17, 1945.                  
 
                      Your Excellency:                      
 
                                                            
 
 
I sincerely thank you for the first report about the distribution   
of American Relief for Italy which you kindly enclosed with your   
                   letter of January 13.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
I take this occasion to renew my great appreciation for this   
charitable work that has been so successfully initiated and I beg   
Your Excellency to express our gratitude to those who collaborate   
           with you in this relief distribution.            
 
                      Sincerely yours,                      
 
                       /s/ DeGasperi                        
 
                    Mr. Myron C. Taylor                     
 
          Personal Representative of the President          
 
of the United States to His Holiness the Pope  
                           Rome.