Telegram from Myron Taylor to Secretary of State George Marshall and President Harry S. Truman

INCOMING TELEGRAM DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH TOP SBORET N 1166 Action: s/s Info: Control 8742 DC/R LOG Rec'd August 27, 1947 5:25 p.m. FROM: Vatican City TO: Secretary of State NO: 36, August 27, 3 noon FOR PRESIDENT ONLY Supplementing my open message of yesterday. His Holiness evidence the greatest concern in regard to the trend of events in the world at large, in Europe, particu- larly regarding the future political complexion of Italy. He applauded the forthright declarations and recent action by yourself and Secretary Marshall and believed your effort in South America was timely and desirable. He supported your declared attitude in Greece in which he characterized present activities as war. His Holiness expressed gratitude for the support which was being given to Italian economy and to that in other European sections not already within the Russian orbit. In a lengthy discussion we reviewed prospective religious influence and canvassed various plans that have been proposed to you and by you for cooperating in some parallel or common action the power of various religious orders with the objective of conveying to those who are hopeless in many places both within the Russian orbit and outside it such assurances that their misfortunes have not been forgotten in the stress of other controversies in states in closer proximity to the western powers and particularly to the United States. Such project widely proposed by liberal theologians at home and abroad presents of course all the doctrinal differences. It is held, however, that in a revolutionary age in which nuclear energy has appeared at a. moment of ARCHIVES AND RECORDS general world 6 SERVICE* DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 By NLT- HC , NARS Date 7-1-75 TOP SECRET INFORMATION COPY