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   Because of my connection with Dialogue, my name was withdrawn.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)

There is danger in being open-minded to error; there is also a danger in being so zealous in protecting the Saints from new views that free inquiry is stifled.

-Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian (pg. 64)