I learned from a friend among the general authorities that I had been approved as president of the Italian mission when it was opened in 1967, but just prior to my call an article written by J.D. Williams that was regarded as critical of Ezra Taft Benson had appeared in Dialogue.   Because of my connection with Dialogue, my name was withdrawn.  Although I had nothing to do with the approval of the article, I lost this opportunity of preaching the gospel in italy in Italian.

-Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian (pg. 89)