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Show Entente May Not Reply, WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Failure of any of the European powers to reply to I he pope's appeal for peace has strengthened a growing impression at the state department de-partment that there is nothing in the note from the Vatican that actually called" for a reply. Amenities may be regarded aa satisfied by the acknowledgment cf its receipt, which all governments are understood to have sent, j No government has given notice of r.n I intention of letting President Wilson's te-ply te-ply stand as a statement of its position, J and it is not assumed by administration officials that just that position would ne j taken, because there are certain phases of the situation suggested in the papal j communication affecting some of the allies j and not the I'nlted States, upon which President Wilson did not comment. There Is an impresson, however, that the other belligerents may be content not to enter into a discussion of those questions. |