Evening star., 1924-04-13
ARGENTINA RECALLS
ENVOY TO VATICAN
Action Held Due to Dispute Over
Naming Buercs Aires
Archbishop.
MAY BREAK RELATIONS
Government Seeks 20 Control Per-
sonnel CT Church.
Rr the Assoc.ateL Press.

Ry the Associated Press. s
BUENOS AIRES. April 12.-Inti-
nations alleged to have emanated
from the Vatican that a cardinal
might have been appointed for
Argentina if the country had aban-
doned its insistence on the appoint
ment of Mgr Michele de Andrea as
archbishop of Buenos Aires, were de-
clared today by La Nacion to have
been rejected by President de Alvear
as was subsequent suggestion from
Vatican sources that the difficulty
could be settled if Argentina would
consent to 4 separation of the church
from the state.
The disclosures published by La
NaCion today are understood to have
been made from authoritative govern
ment sources in connection with the
recall from Rome of Garcia Mansilla.
Argentine minister to the vatican,
who was said to have deyiated from
President de Alvear's instructions in
handling the de Andrea question and
10 have shown himself in the opinion
Of the government TO be a Jealous
defender of the diplomacy of the
Holy See" WhiIc officially it is de-
CIared tn9t Senior Mansilla was re-
called 60 ronHltta ton it is generally
believed le viii nos return to Rome.
sIay Break Relations.
While "a Nacion asserts that the
government does not intend to take
any action trior 20 the return OF
some well informCd quarters today
that the government may signify its
determination to maintain its position
regarding Mgr. de Andrea by for
mally breaking relations with the
Vatican.
1t was also disclosed today that at
the request of the Argentine govern
ment the Jesuit father Jose Blanco,
author OF an article in Cathoic
publication which was considered
disagreeable to the government, had
left the country
Mgr de Andrea withdrew his
candidacy for the cCchbishopric of
Buenes Aires last November after
he had been informed by Mgr. Juan
Beda Cardinale, papal nuncio to
Argentina. that he was persona non
lsrata at the Vatican. Later President
de Alvear @nrounCed that he would
not permit the withdrawal of the
candidacy and that Mgr de Andre i
would be ra%orGcd as the govern
rnent's candidate In February. 1929.
it was intimatcd that the Vatican was
considering the appointment OF an
Argentine cardinal. but that the gov
ernment had taken the position that
the matter could be considered only
afer settlement of the dispute over
the archbishopric of Buenoa Aires.
La EaCion today declares that
President de A1vear rejected both OF
the latest suggestions from the Vati-
can. the first on the ground that II
would imply the surrender OF the
Argentine governments inalienable
right to appoint whom it pleased as
head of the Catholic Church in Ar
gentina and the second on the ground
that Il separation of the church from
the state was Impossible under the
constitution.
According to La Nacion the suG-
-cStion regarding the cardinlate was
cOnfidentialIy made through Mgr.
Caretti. Papa1 nuncio at Paris, and
the second suggestion, concerning the
separation of the church from the
government through DR.. Cullen. q
prominent Argentine Catholic, who
went to Rome in an endeavor to OBJ
tain a solution of the diff