Show ROOSEVELT REFUSES TO 10 VISIT TilE THE POPE Says That Conditions Imposed by Holy Father Are Such as asHe asHe asHe He Cannot Accept R ROME OME April 3 The audience which it was believed former fonner President Roosevelt would have with the pope on Tuesday next will not take place owing to conditions which the Vatican has imposed and which Mr Roosevelt refused to accept Although the definite negotiations relative to the audience ended before Mr Roosevelt left Egypt the announcement was withheld until after Mr Roosevelt reached Rome tonight at the solicitation of oC his l s Amer American American ican jean Catholic friends here who believed in the meantime the Vatican might change its attitude A A 1 1 e ii T p 1 a s i 4 7 eAt 4 S 4 1 si i iS id iS S d S it I i S Sv Sc v c POPE PIUS x One Ui of the former presidents I 11 if ml who hud had been with him in i pt pI pIan t tami ami an s in tO Rome yesterday without t 1 nation from Mr Roosevelt arid and 1 with Cardinal Merr del Vat Val l tile tte in an to ru avoid iJ a st t which as it now stands has tiu a i i Ha al s in alt alii 11 11 it WiLS ia cot unexpected ted But his hi Wire w rt re unavailing ailing at m ill lait Mr Mi Ir Ri wn 10 I u Amt ur J I n HUN saying ing h would 1 Iw hf 1 glad u utI t tI i of an all audit ii with wilh King hing Vi i ir r 5 I jei and the POI Tile lie iud fi cr r with the th king was i ii i i gJ gt 1 Before fore an d Ira mem i oud ur II iva to lo an all H e with wit h the I loa ti IP telegrams telegram VitI passed pa ed ana auA anai i 1 it i 1 negotiations wert vr lIll d b by Mr Mi refusing in am an wa vi to tu u 1 d as to his undue t iii announcing that ait an ai with the Die pope under m mi t Ii i i ir r was wa nunS now imp le leBut But Few Engagements Ai A a matter of fa fat t Mi Ms 11 h declining to aci a pt am any amin in 1 11 tion with Uh his f with tie ne tieppe pop ppe has neither dire tH 01 u indirectly i Gefon I iii timing during or after lie negotiation i 01 or considered ton any engagements in inK K nom those of an lal ehara hai r ralf alf aLei a and ne oe actual actually Rome Home ii t to tonight night with but two engagement 1 the audience with the king and amI the liu ini net nei to 10 be given gIen in his Ills hunot b by the ibe tb in ma The Th rh history of tue th negotiations Is abo abut abutas t as follow i While hile at Cairo Mr Ir Koo Roosevelt i the following rum leishman dated March 3 I Mgr Kennedy rector of tie tLe me IK an Catholic college in r reply pl to tv a an i whIch I caused to be made anade requests the tho following communication to be transmit transmitted lied ted to you The holy hol father wit wll be da do deI I lighted to grant an audience nee e to Mr Reese Roo veit elt on April 5 i and thai nothing 1 I will arise to prevent it such as the Die mm fa h regretted incident which wade made the recep reception reception 1 tion then of Air Mr Fairbanks Replying by cable to Ambassador Leisin Liti Litin man n on March 2 Mr lr Roosevelt saId aid Plea e present the tbt following to I Kennedy It be a IH real to me ins to be presented to the holy father for whom 1 I entertain high higl rep ct JOt 1 persona per personally onalI 11 y and as the head of a ge great gnat tt church I 1 fully lully recognize In hi his imre nUre right eight rig to receive or not whom whomsoever ever ha chooses foi tot an any reason that ems ms gOld J to him bim and It if he lie doe does not r I shall not for a moment question the propriety of or his action On tile the other othet hand 1 in a amy my turn decline to make any an stipulations or to submit to tn any which m many il s sany any way would limit my mj freedom frt edom of or con conduct conduct I duct I trust trim on iii April he will find tind it t convenient to receive me us Certain Terms Made On Marti Mardi 2 Mr Roo eeli at Cure Afro received receive a cablegram from ador gi giving ing the message from Mg Kennedy Kenned which concluded b sayin sa ins The audien e annot take plue e except on the understanding expressed ed in ni the for foe former to tomer mer message The following day da Mr Mi Roosevelt sent another message to the American am ambassador ambas ambassador bas ador saying The proposed pro d presen presentation pre en I tation is of or course now impossible Mr Roosevelt particularly desires the incident shall be regarded regard d by his friends I both Catholic and Protestant in jn Amer Amei America lea ica as personal and that it shall TI TIt mit mitI t I gIve ghie rise to an any acrimonious I With this end in view Mew he cabled tabled today I the following statement to the Rev l i mart man Abbott editor of ot the Outlook at ai New York Through lh Outlook 1 I wish to make makeI I a state me lit to Iti my fellow Americans re regarding r 1 rI I garding gamIng what has ha occurred in connection with the Vatican I am sure that the great majority of my m fellow citizen Cath lice quite as much as Protestants will feel teel that I acted alted in the only onh way wa pos possible po sible for fOl an American to act and b Is cause cau e of this very wry fact tact 1 I most mOl earnestly Uy hope that the incident will be treated m ma In Ina a wa way way as merely m rely per pel personal nal and above all a not warranting the slightest exhibition of rant ranor or or bit teme Among my best beat b t and closet closest t friends ara aramany aramany aramany many Catholics The respect and regard of those tho e of my fellow Americans Americana who are Catholics are as all dear to me as a the rp re speet t and regard of those tho who are arc Pro On my Journey through Africa Arri a aI I vl visited many Catholic as well a as man Protestant missions ml ions As A I look forward I Ito to telling the people at home honie aU all that has ha been done by Protestants and aDd Cath Catli CathI I Continued on Page Two A |