 With Poland overrun , but France and the Low Countries yet to be attacked , Pius continued to hope for a negotiated peace to prevent the spread of the conflict . The similarly minded US President Franklin D. Roosevelt re @-@ established American diplomatic relations with the Vatican after a seventy @-@ year hiatus and dispatched Myron C. Taylor as his personal representative . Pius warmly welcomed Roosevelt 's envoy and peace initiative , calling it " an exemplary act of fraternal and hearty solidarity ... in defence against the chilling breath of aggressive and deadly godless anti @-@ Christian tendencies " . American correspondence spoke of " parallel endeavours for peace and the alleviation of suffering " . Despite the early collapse of peace hopes , the Taylor mission continued at the Vatican . 
