VATICAN AND QUIRINAL

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1899, Page 5

VATICAN AND QUIRINAL

THT POPE'S ADMISSION TO THE TSAR'S CONFERENCE. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Rome, 27th January. The Italian Government has modified the objection which it raised a day or two ago to the Pope taking part in the Tsar's Disarmament Conference or sending an emissary to it, Admiral Cauevaro, Minister of Marine, states that Italy will not object to a Papal delegate attending the Conference, but he must be withdrawn if any inopportune questions are raised. Light is thrown upon the Italian Government's objections by the following extract from the last number of the Review of Reviews : — "The Pope was not invited to the Conference on the Anarchists. It is still an open question whether or not he will be invited to the Conference of Peace. He professed a great desire to help the Emperor in his humanitarian campaign, but those who profess to be in the secrets of the Vatican maintain that, should his delegates be admitted,. they will take their seats solely for the purpose of proclaiming that there can be no peace, and ought to be no peace, until the Pope has his own again. The Pope was represented at the Conference of Labour at Berlin, but he was left out in the cold at the Anti-Slavery Conference at Brussels. If the Powers believed that his mission to the Peace Conference would raise the question of the temporal power, the probability is that St Petersburg would follow the precedent of Brussels rather than that of Berlin."