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Show PEACE PLANS WOT SENT U. S. BY POPE This, at Least, Is Claim of Giornale d'ltalia in Rome. ROE, Sept. 8. via Paris. U:40 p. m. The Giornale d'TtaHa says: Having obtained authoritative information, in-formation, we are able to state that the pope sent to President Wilson no autograph letter, no message concerning con-cerning peace, and not even the original orig-inal copy of the pontifical letter to the heads of the belligerent peoples. peo-ples. This n-wsfjaper says further that 1 Washington reports that Cardinal Gib- bons pfesenied to President Wilson a letter from the pope are open to doubt. ) especially In view of the fact that the ; Osservatore Romano, the organ of th Vatican. suppressed thai portion of I Washington dispatches which related to j the message Cardinal Gibbons is said to 1 have presented to the president. WASHINGTON1-, Sept. fi. The apparent 1 conflict between Rome and Washington ' dispatches regarding Pope Benedict's peace message to President Wilson is re- : garded here as resting sclely over wheth- I er the pope actually addressed a per- j sonal message to the president. Cardinal Gibbons on hip visit to th1 White house last Thursday said he had : delivered a message from the pope to the president, but could not divulge lis contents. con-tents. It was learned that the message which came as a cablegram from Rome addressed to the cardinal last Monday contained coneratulations of Pope Benedict Bene-dict to President Wilson for his efforts on behalf of peace and expressed I he views of the Vatican, which are well known. Thus, technically, the message was to CardinaJ Gibbon", although he was commanded to express certain views to President Wilson. That Is the course generally pursued in diplomatic relations. rela-tions. j In Catholic circles here it in heliev ed the vatican intended Cardinal Gibbons I should express to the president what he knew to be the pontiffs position and that the pope, while probably belie vine that the time was not one for a direct r personal communication, took the opportunity oppor-tunity for preparing the way for such a message. It ia believed here that the statements from Rttttis were prompted by requests for the text of what was believed be-lieved there to have been a formal communication com-munication from tiie vatban to the White I house and that they were not intended ( ks denials of the story as it had been I published in this country. |