Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, paid a farewell call on Pope Pius XII, and left Rome for the U. S. Few thought ailing Envoy Taylor would ever return. But the Holy See's diplomacy, canniest in the world, had already taken a step to neutralize the effects of his departure. Day before the Taylor farewell the Pope ap pointed Monsignor Joseph Patrick Hurley, only U. S. member of his Secretariate of State, as Bishop of St. Augustine...
...occasion was managed with historical care. In 1789 Thomas Jefferson, Minister to France, addressed his fellow Americans from the steps of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. He had just returned from Paris, where he had witnessed the first determined steps towards a French Republic. This week, another envoy to France, William Christian Bullitt, also recently returned from Paris, stood on the same steps (under the auspices of the same American Philosophical Society which had sponsored Jefferson) and declared: "I have seen the French Republic destroyed...
...their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek . . . to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world cannot be rebuilt." To the Vatican as his special envoy he sent Steelman Myron C. Taylor. At that time much hope was built on the Vatican lining up on the side of the democracies. But World War II spread further. Last week the Vatican appeared to be working out its own policy...
...Florence lay the President's special envoy to the Pope, Myron C. Taylor...
...Roosevelt kept mum about what he learned by sending to Europe special war-investigating envoy...