Foreign News: Midnight Sunbeam

In the wake of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to Moscow, an incident from another famed visit bobbed up last week. All one night U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston and Writer William L. White* listened to their Moscow hosts sing Russian songs. Then the Russians politely asked their guests to sing an American song. Johnston and White responded with the only song they could think of: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam.

* Son of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette's late, great William Allen White.

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