After John XXIII?

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

The Conclave of Cardinals, now assembled in Rome, is expected to be one of the longest and toughest of the century. At this writing it is already being compared with the Conclave which elected Pius X—after the intervention of the Austrian Emperor who, as legal successor to the Holy Roman Emperor, exercised his veto (for the final time) to prevent the election of Cardinal Rampolla to the Chair of St. Peter.