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"To Name Three New Cardinals for America"(PDF). New York Times. 29 October 1911. Retrieved 12 November 2017. The Times describes the four French as the first cardinals from that country since the dispute between France and the Vatican [1905], but Pius had named two French cardinals in December 1907.