Chief of Array Chaplains William R. Arnold clasped Bishop Adna Wright Leonard's hand: "May the good Lord grant you happy landings." Replied the Methodist Bishop to the Catholic Monsignor: "Especially if one of them is the final landing."
Afterwards the Bishop, chairman of the General Commission of Army & Navy Chaplains, climbed into a transatlantic plane. He was off on the first lap of a world tour, suggested by President Roosevelt, to visit U.S. forces in Great Britain, North Africa, India and China, as official representative of more than 30 million U.S. Protestants.
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