Journal November 3, 1963

I’m told that these then-ubiquitous “iron man” urinal facilities are no more. So nobody these days can be amused to see couples enter and leave them, still holding hands…

November 3 (continued)—Thursday, the mission presidents were in a conference of their own while the Board people arrived (more transportation). Antonio prepared a perfectly luscious meal at noon on Thursday and then again on Friday, the first in French style and the second in Spanish. Tours, restaurants, and general presidential D-Day activity occupied the evening. Friday saw the meeting with the auxiliary people. Without President Petersen there, the mission presidents were not nearly so well united in their requests to the Boards as they should have been. President Hanks carried on gamely and [259] did a noble job, considering his limited acquaintance with the problem. After our complaints and requests were all aired in the morning, the afternoon session began with a beautiful expression of the cooperative attitude of Brother Richards and his eagerness to promote any Sunday School programs that would help the European problems. Military parade on the Champs Élysées 14 July 1963 (the French Fête Nationale But from here on, everything deteriorated rapidly. Sister Jacobsen was vaguely hurt that we should find the celebration of Flag Day, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July of limited value in Europe. Brother Smith spoke at length, regaling us with one of the most fulsome series of specious arguments and egregious non sequiturs I have ever been pained to follow.

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