Thanks Sean for the translation and post. In hindsight it would have been nice if Abp. Lefebvre had consecrated about ten bishops instead of four. We might be in less of a quagmire had the Abp. done this. He was a bit too trusting of modernist Rome in my opinion.
+Lefebvre was once in Rome when, quite surprisingly, he chanced to bump into then-Superior General, Fr. Franz Schmidberger, and exclaimed, "You!"
Another time, +Lefebvre and Fr. Schmidberger were in Rome together, to meet with Fr. Schmidberger's friend, Cardinal Ratzinger: Fr. Schmidberger and Cardinal Ratzinger spoke German together, while +Lefebvre looked on. +Lefebvre did not speak German.
+Lefebvre had begun to distrust the Superior General, whom he had once sponsored, because of these things (i.e., Fr. Schmidberger was too eager for an agreement with modernist Rome), and worked to ensure he was not re-elected in 1994. With the assistance of Fr. Faure, they achieved this objective, but the backup liberal candidate -Fr. Fellay- was elected in his place.
These long-forgotten and/or little-known tidbits of history show that the rot was in place even before +Lefebvre died, and was even discreetly working against him.
The man he could count on most, was the one he submitted to Rome's approval for episcopal consecration in 1987: Fr. Richard Williamson.
I have all of this in writing.