Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair guess that his personal envoy to the Vatican, onetime Steelman Myron C. Taylor, had discussed the same question with Pope Pius XII. At week's end Mr. Taylor, just back by Clipper, waited to make his confidential report to the President...
...Other Hess rumors: 1) he was interned in Canada ; 2 ) he was on a hunger strike because the British refused to treat him as a "special envoy...
Thursday. The churchmen rise in protest. Father Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University, onetime papal envoy in Russia, says the Soviet Constitution "guarantees nothing but a hollow shell of religious freedom." Methodist Bishop Raymond J. Wade of Detroit, former bishop of the Russian area, says: "Undisputed imprisonment and slaying of tens of thousands of priests . . . together with thousands of closed churches, speak louder than printed words...
Friday. The President intimated that some time ago he told his envoy to Moscow to try to swap some Lend-Lease for some religious freedom. Father Walsh backtracks, praises the President's constructive efforts...
Instead of returning straight to the U.S. with whatever answer Pope Pius XII had given to President Roosevelt's message on war-&-peace aims, the President's envoy, Myron Charles Taylor, last week changed his plans and flew from Lisbon to London. There he talked with Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, U.S. Minister to the Allies Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., U.S. Minister to Eire David Gray. He let it be known that he might also go to Eire to confer with President Eamon de Valera...