Mystery Lengthened

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.

The extension of Myron Taylor's mission was a hint that the Pope's message had great temporal significance. The public still knew nothing about it. Speculated the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "It may well be that the Vatican is now beginning to feel that the time is approaching when a more definite line should be given to the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world."

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