EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9182, 5 April 1910, Page 5

EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

WILL NOT MEET THE POPE. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) ROME, April 4. Mr Roosevelt has arrived at Rome. He purposed seeing His Holiness the Pope to-morrow, but the arrangements have fallen through. The Vatican intimated that it would be a necessary condition that Mr Roosevelt should not offend its susceptibilities as Mr Fairbanks did. Mr Roosevelt declined to make such a promise. Received April 5, 9.40 a.m. ROME, April 4. Mr Roosevelt, in his correspondence with the Vatican, recognised the Pope's right to rcceivo whomsoever he liked, and added: "I, in my turn, must decline to make any stipulation or condition limiting my freedom of conduct." Mr Roosevelt telegraphed to America that he hoped American journalists would treat the incident as merely personal and in no wise affecting the relations of Catholics and Protestants. King Emmanuel gave Mr Roosevelt a cordial audience. Mr C. W. Fairbanks was Vice-Presi-dent. of the United States at the time when Mr Roosevelt w-as President. Pope Pius X. cancelled an arrangement to receive Mr Fairbanks after his tour in the Orient, because he had been previously received by JSing Victor Emmanuel, besides addressing members of the Methodist Church.