DEPARTMENT OF STATE  
 
 
WASHINGTON  
 
 
March 30, 1945  
 
 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT  
 
 
Subject: Reply of the Pope to the Presidents Felicitation on the   
Anniversary of the Pope's Coronation.  
 
 
 
Myron Taylor's telegram number 63 of March 20 to you about which you ask   
in your memorandum of March 22, 1945 transmits the reply of the Pope  
to your meassage of congratulations of the occasion of the sixth   
anniversary of his coronation.  On March 12 Mr. Taylor sent the following   
message to the Pope:  
 
 
"On behalf of President Roosevelt may I offer sincere felicitations on   
this Sixth Anniversary of the coronation of Your Holiness.  
 
 
"May Your Holiness long be spared in full health and vigor to continue   
your constant endeavors to rescue and alleviate the sufferings of all those   
who are distressed in this tragic period of universal war."  
 
 
The Pope's reply of March 16, sent through the Vatican Secretariat of   
State, does not appear to require any action on your part.  
 
 
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