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Show POPE REGRETS HE FAILED TO SEE AMERICAS Eagerly Questions Diplomats Diplo-mats and Churchmen Arriving Ar-riving From New World ROM B, April 29. (By The Asso-clated Asso-clated Press.) Pope Plus XI harbors at least one deep repret and that Ls hi j failure to visit the New World before ;hls elevation to the Holy See. I "I was so anxious to visit the I'nit. .1 'States. Brazil and Argentina." he said Irecentlv. '"Rut I thought I had plentj of time. I never dreamed that I would, ' be elected pope." Diplomats and ecclesiastical dignitaries digni-taries are playing an important part m the new pontiffs efforts to famt! tarize himself with the affairs of his church in every land. Cardinals are Usually accorded interviews lastinK wo hours ,.1 more, while ambassador I are seldom dismissed before thej hacvol spent an hour with the pope "He is evidently feeling his way and living to understand the complicated I machinery in all its parti." said one ambassador, as he left th Vatican of-, ifices. "it is quite a striking contrast 1,. pope Benedict, who used to go, -.traight to the heart of the subject In hand and exhaust it in a few moments." mo-ments." His sympathetic attitude toward the American continents has encouraged, ; atliirAmsrican representatives of thej ,1 a(,noili- rnurni i, ih''' ; -reuse in the number of -a r.iui 1 la al-loted al-loted them. Sehpr de Axaredo, Br jian ambassador to the Vatican, has pointed out to the new pope that the fnited States, smaller m area and with 0 smaller Catholic population than Brazil's has two r.udin.ils while BraXll has but one. One of the chief objections to grant-ins; grant-ins; cardinals In LAt in-A tnerica brought forward in the past is that the sa. red ollepe cannot exceed 70 members, and that the pope, following traditional !i;.w. must leave a few vacancies to be (filled bv his successor. This arjrumen' ,1s controverted by Senor AxarbdOi on the ground that the present limitation limita-tion to 70 cardinals was established 'pearly 400 years ago. when no one i could forsse the development of the 'American continents. 00- |