 As the agreement did not specify a date for the episcopal consecration, should Lefevre have died before it was granted, the Society would have been unable to ordain any seminarians and forced into capitulation to the Holy See.Lefevre dubbed his plan "Operation Survival".That is why, taking into account the strong will of the present Roman authorities to reduce Tradition to naught, to gather the world to the spirit of Vatican II and the spirit of Assisi, we have preferred to withdraw ourselves and to say that we could not continue.