At Harry Truman's press conference last week, he pondered his answer to a question, twisting the gold masonic ring on the little finger of his left hand. The question was: Why had he nominated General Mark Clark to be U.S. ambassador to the Vatican? Slowly, the President answered that he had studied the matter ever since January 1950, when Myron
Taylor resigned as his special representative. Truman had finally decided that the cause of peace would be served by the presence of a U.S. ambassador at the Vatican.-
A Listening Post. Through a salvo of newsmen's questions, Harry Truman stood his...
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