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Show Peace Envoy to Vatican ' 1 Myron C. Taylor Faces Important Job in Roma . . NEW YORK As President Roosevelt's personal representative representa-tive to the Vatican, big, quiet Myron C. Taylor Is headed for the public attention he has tried all his life to avoid. a The job Is the second big step In the new career of public serv Ice the 65-year-old Taylor began be-gan after reaching the heights as a business man. And It's perhaps the most Important Job he haa ever held. Reared In the subdued atmosphere at-mosphere of the Quakers, Taylor quietly practiced law, quietly entered en-tered on a big business career which made him an associate of J. P. Morgan and culminated in the chairmanship of the United States Steel corporation, from which he retired last year. Throughout the whole thing he sought no personal glorification. Whatever notice- came to hira came as a result of his business activities. His public pronouncements pronounce-ments were always to the point. Inclined to be a little bald and heavy, devoid of theatrics. Yet behind the cold, almost forbidding facade of the business busi-ness man, Taylor led still leads a rich and full life. In New York he lives on "millionaires' row" In the East Seventies. He has a colonial country house on Plays and Travels - He plays as much tennis as he can find time for, goes yachting yacht-ing on Long Island sound, reads I Tar (. mm i" j tf ' 41 a great deal, studies philosophy, travels extensively. His name is associated with various charities and endowments. He backs the Metropolitan opera financially, goes to Its presentations. He has a small but choice art collection. col-lection. In which Gothic items predominate. A member of many -:? - v- x i Mrs. Taylor Important clubs, he rarely Is seen In any of them. A warm, genial. Interested host, he delights In giving large dinners at which his guests are served choice champagne, although al-though he himself neither smokes nor drinks. Taylor's conception of society Is rather different from the one usually associated with a business busi-ness tycoon. He believes in public pub-lic relief on a national scale and in the responsibility of business toward society. Recognised Steel Union He advocates maintenance of the maximum domestic market for Industry through a system of high wages and stabilization of employment. "The greatest problem of all," he says, "is how to protect the standard of living." liv-ing." It was Taylor who shattered shat-tered the strong antiunion position po-sition of big steel by recognizing and signing with the CIO steel workers' union. There Is a close companionship companion-ship between Taylor and his wife, who Is reputed to share his social so-cial philosophy. The recognition recogni-tion of the steel union by U. S. Steel is credited In part to her. Toward international problems, prob-lems, Taylor brings the methods of the business man, because "I have to, for these are the only methods I know." In the summer sum-mer of 1938 he went to Europe at President Roosevelt's request to try to solve the refugee problem. prob-lem. Recipe for Success The diplomats who met with him at Evian, France, at first I Myreai C. Taylor found him somewhat pompous. But he impressed them with his sincerity. The basis of his Evian approach was this: "There is much diplomacy In business, especially es-pecially in selling. In both business busi-ness and diplomacy you have to make it palatable, attractive, to the other man." Now he is going to the Vatican to try to make peace "palatable, "palata-ble, attractive" to warring Europe. |