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all feel flattered and highly honored at the gesture His Holiness so spontaneously made - as by doing so he realizes the importance we are giving to the World's Fair of 1964 - but evidently the dangers involved must have escaped him in his eagerness to contribute in so generous a manner, to our undertaking.

Yours very sincerely,

Germain Seligman

To the Editor of 
The New York Times
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New York, N.Y.