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Show America liflight HelpEnd War Belief Expressed In Cablegram From Rome Transmitted by Prelate Washington, Sept. 2 Cardinal Gibbons Gib-bons enmo to Washington today with a messago of hope for peaco in Kjr-opo Kjr-opo to President Wilson from Pope Uenedlct. It was a cablegram prAis-Ing prAis-Ing tho Presidents attitude nnd Indicated In-dicated a belief that the United Stntes might be In a position to help in bringing the European war to an end. After reading tho message the cardinal car-dinal remained for half an houjrvlth tho President discussing tho .'1)0?8'-blllty .'1)0?8'-blllty of peaco nnd tho world sit'untion generally. Ho emerged smiling! and walked over to the stato department for a conference with Secretary Lansing. Lan-sing. Later ho announced ho had talk ed peaco with tho President nnu tow him of his gratification over tho apparent ap-parent success of the negotiations with Germany over submarlno war-faro. war-faro. Ho spoke cheerfully of tho situation saying tho prospects for peaco seemed seem-ed to bo brightening. Tho text of tho popo's messago wub not mndo public, nor was thero any fqrmal comment on It from tho White- House-. Unofficially, Unoffi-cially, however, it was said that tho President was much pleased with the messago and with tho Intervlow. It was understood that tho popo made no definlto suggestion ns to a peaco movement nnd that his message wa3 purely a personal ono to President Wilson and not nddressed to tho heads of other neutrnl governments. Tho visit of tho cnrdlnnl created tho deepest Interest In official and diplomatic circles. It had been known Blnco Tuesday that ho was coming, but whllo tho pope's cablegram reached reach-ed him Monday no inkling of It was heard in Washington until today. Joint action for peace among tho heads of several neutral nations and tho popo was suggested as a po3slblo outcome of today's developments, but this idea received no official confirmation. confirm-ation. Up to the present tho United States has acted entirely alono In tho single offer it hns mado to be of service In bringing about peace. Problem Is Complicated Diplomats representing tho belligerent bellig-erent nations reserved comment on tho conforenco until moro definlto Information In-formation has been given out. It wa3 pointed out that many political Questions, Ques-tions, Including tho maintenance of tho neutrality of tho Dalknns and tho establishment of a separate Polish kingdom would bo Involved in tho discussion dis-cussion of peaco at this time. Tho President's offer of the services serv-ices of tho United States to tho belligerents bel-ligerents still stands open and ho has reiterated several times that he Is anxious to do everything posslblo in that direction. Whether ho will tnko any further steps without hearing hear-ing directly from any of tho powers involved has not been mado clear. Tho Mexican situation wns touched upon incidentally by Cardinal Gibbons, Gib-bons, both at tho Whlto House and at tho stato department with an expression ex-pression of his hopes for nn early restoration re-storation of order and government in that country. |