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With the Pope and Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's envoy, talking peace aims at the Vatican, Britain thought again. London mumbled that only suburbs of Cairo had been bombed...
Myron Charles Taylor is 67 years old and has been in delicate health since an operation for gallstones 15 months ago. Only a matter of supreme importance would have taken President Roosevelt's personal envoy back to his post at the Vatican last week. Such a matter, beyond doubt, was the message Envoy Taylor bore from his President to Pope Pius...
...reporters who wanted to know what his message was, Envoy Taylor had only one answer: "I am the message." Not a word leaked out of the Vatican about the subject of the conversations. Italian newspapers were forbidden even to mention Myron Taylor's name-a prohibition that was soon violated by fire-eating Editor Roberto Farinacci of Regime Fascista, who heatedly hissed that Envoy Taylor had come to get the Pope's approval of President Roosevelt's war aims...
Back to the Vatican last week flew the only envoy the U.S. has sent to the Holy See since 1867, tight-lipped Protestant Myron C. Taylor. No explanation was vouchsafed for his return. So speculation began buzzing...
German Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann was further embarrassed. Among 83 parcels delivered by Japanese steamer and labeled "For Personal Use" of the envoy, authorities seized a 60-page book listing 3,000 persons to shadow as "unfriendly to Germany." Next day the distressed Ambassador was seen in his garden, gazing pensively into a large pile of burning documents...