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Holy Silence

Roosevelt's Envoy to the Vatican

Season 1 Episode 1 | 1m 53s

In 1940, President Roosevelt sent industrialist Myron Taylor to the Vatican in an effort to persuade Pope Pius XII to speak out against Nazi Germany and in favor of the Allies.

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