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Gondola Greeting. In 1953 came news that the Pope had made Archbishop Roncalli a cardinal. The heads of Catholic states have the privilege of awarding the red biretta to nuncios created cardinals while abroad, and Cardinal Roncalli received his biretta from his friend Socialist French President Vincent Auriol. thus underlining the good relations between church and state. Three days later the Pope appointed Roncalli Patriarch of Venice...
Roncalli was often compared to St. Pius X (1903-1914), who like him came from a peasant family and like him was Patriarch of Venice. When Roncalli's friend Auriol visited him in Venice, the cardinal showed his guest the small, modest room where Pius had lived before his election. "Maybe it is from here also that the successor to Pius X will come," said Auriol. Last week he recalled: "The cardinal smiled but did not answer...
...Auriol's Conditions...
...return to power legally and with broad support, De Gaulle needed the Assembly votes of the Socialists. The Socialist terms, expressed in a personal letter to De Gaulle by Vincent Auriol, 73, first President (1947-54) of the Fourth Republic...
...reply to Auriol, De Gaulle reassured but also warned the Socialists...