 At the wishes of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law, Italian consular officials were invited to dine with Pacelli when he joined the Cardinals of Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago.In their meeting, Pacelli secured from Roosevelt a promise to appoint a US representative to the Holy See.No such diplomatic link had existed since 1870, when the "Risorgimento" seized the territories of the Papal States, all but ending the papacy's temporal power.