This telegram must be closely paraphrased ,before being communicated to anyone.
 
 
 
Vatican City
 
 
 
Dated January 31, 1945
 
 
 
REc'd. 2:43 p.m.
 
 
 
Secretary of State,
 
 
 
Washington.
 
 
 
29, January 31, 4 p.m.
 
 
 
FOR PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY.
 
 
 
On Tuesday morning I introduced the Honorable  
Harry Hopkins to His Holiness Pops Pius in private audience.   
The audience lastsd approximatsly forty minutes   
in which time Mr. Hopkins was given opportunity to mention   
freely such subjects as he had been commissioned by  
the Prssidcnt to discuss and the Pops had opportunity to  
exprsss his reaction and to offer any suggestions which   
he desired to do. In view of the fact that Mr. Hopkins  
will be returning to America in the not too distnat future   
and will be reporting to the President himself in the meantime   
I will refrain from further detailed description of this   
exchange of views.  I would say that in all respects Mr.   
Hopkins statements accord with my own on the occasion of  
my many audiences with His Holiness during the year and that   
the reaction of His Holiness was also in