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 XII.
Myron Taylor alighted at Rome's airport late one afternoon, weary from a Clipper flight across the Atlantic, a long conference with Ambassador to France Admiral William Daniel Leahy in Barcelona, another exhausting flight to Rome.
He went early to bed....
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