Archive Report
Archive Report
Status of United States-Vatican Relations
Protestant Opposition to Taylor Mission
Opposition of Protestant groups to the mission of Myron C. Taylor as personal representative of the President of the United States at the Vatican has grown steadily since the end of the war and threatens to increase in vehemence as work on the peace treaties nears completion. Leaders of every large Protestant denomination have urged President Truman to terminate the mission, originally established by President Roosevelt in 1940, on the ground that the war emergency, which was its original justification, has ceased to exist.
The President told representatives of some 30 Protestant bodies who called on him at the White House, June 5, 1946, that the mission was still to be regarded as temporary, but he set ...