Memo of Telephone Call Between John Foster Dulles and James Hagerty Regarding the Pope and the Rosenberg Case

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Februsry 13, 1953 TELEPHONE CONVERSAZION WITH JAMES HAGERTY THE WHITE HOUSE Ir. Hagerty telephoned the Secrotary at 9:30 this morning with reference to a story carried by both AP and UP that the Pope had intervened in the Rosenborg case. The Secretary checked with the staff in his office, who had just convened for the regular meeting, and told him that we had not recoived any communication from the Vatican on the mattor. Ir. Hagerty asiced the Secretary1: advice as to what he could say at his 10:30 Pross Conference and the Secrotary suggested that he say that neither the White House nor the State Department had any knowledge of the matter except for the press report and nothing could be said about it. Both stories stressed that the Pope had made the appeal "soze time before the Presid ent amounced his decision". D. Lia D DOTD