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    "ocrText": "April 19, 1946\nA-R\nMr. Russell:\nFailing to see you, I would like to press upon you\nthe importance of prompt action in the re-assignment of\nMr. Harold Tittmann who has been acting as my Assistant\nin Rome on my mission between the President and the Pope\nsince 1940. The President, in his initial arrangement\nwith me, indicated that I could select my own Assistants.\nUpon learning the qualifications of Mr. Tittmann I accepted\nhim.\nMr. Tittmann was at that time Consul General at Geneva.\nAs I did not require his full time service he worked with\nme in Rome when I needed him and at other times carried on\nat his post at Geneva. This condition carried on until the\noutbreak of war, at which time he gave full time to my\noffice and lived at the Vatican during the German occupation\nof Italy. I visited and lived there during that period - in\nSeptember-Oetober, 1942. I can commend his services in every\nway, and I am devoted to him as an individual.\nDuring the summer of 1944 he - a Foreign Service Officer,\nClass I - developed an ambition to have a better post, either\nas Ambassador to some small country or Minister under an\nAmbassador in some more important country. He speaks French,\nItalian and English. He was injured in the first World War\nand would be incapacitated to carry on an every day full time\npost. All of these facts, I think, are known to you. They\nare known to others in the Department, all of whom have his\ninterest at heart. He asked for re-assignment last year. I\nmyself put in the hands of the Department representatives a\nletter from him last September stating his preferences and his\ndesire to be moved from Rome.\nWhen the American forces entered Rome in June, 1944 - and\nI was there shortly after and until the past summer, July, 1945 -\nthere being no Embassy then in Rome, the work of our office\nbecame increasingly heavy as we had to act in may different\nfields relating to the presence of the Army and visits by repre-\nsentative American officials, Senators, Congressmen, and others.\nIn Ausust, 1944, I asked for a second Assistant. Mr. Franklin C.\nof\nGowen,\nAMD\nRECORDE"
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