It is interesting to recall that in a great book, "The Second Vatican Council (an unwritten story) Robert de Mattei, it is noted (page 184) that most of The Cardinals were tired of the Real Mass; In those days Bishop Borromeo of Pesaro pointed out "the soreness of almost all the foreign cardinals against the liturgy of the Roman rite and Its language, and the slackness of the Italians, who hardly react or at least have not yet begun too react.
The progressive politicians (Council Fathers intent on imposing their revolution) came prepared and they met each day in St. Martha's (Where the Bishop of Rome chose to live) to strategerize because they knew that the Real Mass conveyed to the pew denizens the real faith and the political fathers of the council wanted a new "expression" of or new "focus' of the faith which required a new rite to convey that ideology.The faithful Italian Cardinals were slow to respond because they could not imagine why anyone would be sour on such a good, true, and beautiful rite.
O, and where is a single indication in the early 1960s that even one faithful Catholic wanted the Real Mass destroyed to be replaced with a Lil' Licit Liturgy?