Religion: Billy in Germany

Evangelist Billy Graham, fresh from a phenomenal tour of Great Britain and Scandinavia, invaded West Germany last week to spread the word. Flying into Frankfurt, he first kicked up a flurry of newspaper headlines with some strong words about material affairs. "Germany must be given the latest and most powerful weapons as a deterrent to war . . . " he said. France, Graham added, was comparable to "a watch without a mainspring . . . The French just sin and sin, and get weaker."

Later, Graham had to soften his words. "I am here on a spiritual mission, not a political...

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