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Show POPE ANXIOUS TO RECEIVE VISIT FROM PRESIDENT PARIS, Dec. is. While President Wilson Wil-son has not announced positively that he will visit Pope Honed let, it now seems probable that he will do so. It is known here that the pope is anxious to receive t lie president, nnd the Vatican officials have announced that the visit may be made without danger of embarrassment because of the differences between the Vatican and the qulrinal. It is likely that if President Wilson , goes to Rome he will visit the Qulrinal palace as the guest of King Victor Emmanuel. Em-manuel. Afterward he will go to the American embassy, where he will be met : by the rector and students of the American Amer-ican Ecclesiastical college. The rector will convey to the president Pope Benedict's Bene-dict's desire to see 1dm. If President Wilson goes to the Vatican he will also call on Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, who will return the call upon the president at the embassy em-bassy on behalf of the pope, who cannot bv precedent leave the Vatican. This was the program followed when King Edward VTI visited the king and the pope. If the president goes to Rome, it probably proba-bly will be after Christmas, as King Victor Vic-tor Kmuvmuel will be in Paris until December De-cember 2Z. |