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Show POPE WILL NOT MEETjtOOSEVELT ROME, April 3. Th" failure to arrange ar-range an audience between Ex-President Roosevelt and the pope which whs known only In certain circles to-dny to-dny is expected to create a tremend-1 tremend-1 oub fctlr ln-re as well as abroad, far overshadowing the Importance of the Incident In which former Vice President Presi-dent FalrbankH wan the principal. Although Al-though the negotiations were technically techni-cally between Ambassador Leishman and Mgr. Kennedy It Is well understood under-stood in Rome that Mgr. Kennedy was acting under the Instructions of Cardinal Merry Del Val. Tho tele-grama tele-grama therefore were In reality between be-tween Colonel Roosevelt and tho papal pa-pal secretary. When the correspondent called at I the vatlcau this evening general sur-1 sur-1 prise was expressed when It was i learned Mr. Roosevelt had given out , tho text of the messages exchanged between Mgr. Keunedy and the Araer- lean ambassador; as they were re- garded by tne Vatican in the light of 1 diplomatic documents. Mgr. Kennedy explalued that on March 31, John W. Garrett, first secretary of the embassy, embas-sy, called upon him to "transmit"' Mr. Roosevelt's request for an audience j ' with the pontiff on April 5. He paid j that Mr. Garrett Intdsted upon the word "transmit." Mgr. Kennedy In-' In-' formed the secretory that he Immediately Immed-iately would present the request to . th proper Vatican authorities and promised a re-fponse as aeon as i08-slble. ROME. April 3. The audience J ! which It was believed Ex President ' Rooeeveil would have with the pope on Tuesday next, will not take place, owing to conditions the Vatican haa imposed and which Mr. Roosevelt refused re-fused to entertain. Although the def-lnlte def-lnlte negotiation relative to the audience aud-ience ended before Mr. Roon-voit left Eitypt. the aunouncenienl was withheld with-held until after Mr. RooKevolt reached Rome tonight at the solicitation of his American Catholic friends here who believed In the meantime the j Vatican might chance its attitude. One of the former president' American Ameri-can friends who bad been with him |