<TITLE>02. Par 9-17</TITLE>L-9 And I could... that met many of the great celebrity of the country on this time, because Baron Von Blomburg was with us; he was the manager of the meeting, and well-known by all the monarchs, and potentates, and so forth, of the world. In Lisbon, why, we met the governor of the parliament, had dinner with them. And in Rome, all the dignitaries there...
And this King Faruk, Faruk, ever what his name was, out of Egypt, that just married the young lady, you know, we understood, then they was divorced again. And he has a right to have four wives, so he--he only has about one or two now. But he married this young girl, school girl, and you heard the publicity in the paper and so forth. Nice man to talk to. Big fellow, great... I mean, big fellow. He was big. So he--he was a nice man.
Then we met a couple of the queens of down in the Orients and so forth. And then they were there at Rome, and knowing that we were there, come to meet us.

L-12 And had an audience with the pope, and could have went up and talked to him. But when I found out you had to kiss his ring and his toe, I said, "No, no. Huh-uh! No." See? I will give any man his due regards, as reverend, doctor, whatever he is, to give him honor, and take off my hat to him as a gentleman, or so forth. But when it comes to worship, there's only One, that's the Lord Jesus Christ. And I would not do that.
So he said... He had asked, asked the baron, and so forth, if he could have me over there on a Tuesday afternoon or something like that. He said, "Now, when you go in," said, "the first thing you do, you bow down before him. Then he holds out his ring, and you kiss his ring. Then he sticks his foot out, with a toe on that."
I said, "No, no, no. No, sir. Just forget that. We won't do that."

L-15 So then went on to Cairo, Egypt, and Athens, Greece, on down into--to different parts of the country, and then wound up in Bombay. And I--I tell you: I don't believe that I could come out of what I seen in Bombay in ten years, of what it was. I... It's the most pathetic sights that I ever seen in my life, from around the world.
This is practically all but the extreme East. I practically visited all the countries of Europe and Asia, and--and through that part of the country, even to the borderlines of Russia, but never been in Japan yet. And that's supposed to be next on the program, this, Australia and New Zealand and Japan. My next stop, from where I was at, was Hong Kong, China. We was just around on the other side, way closer to come to the United States, coming this a way. We just had to stop at Hong Kong, Tokyo, Formosa, and Guam, Wake, Philippines, then here. Instead of that, we go plumb back around this other way, to come--come in again. But in there...

L-17 There is no poor people in America. I don't care where he is, and how hard he has to live, there's ne--not one poor person in America. If you find him in an alley, eating out of a garbage can, his clothes all off of him, and everything else, he's a millionaire. Don't never think he's poor, 'cause he's not; after you once visit India, you see the poor people there. Why, I tell you, a hard...
I'm hard-hearted. I've seen so much and had to go through so much. Many of you might not understand how it, effect it has on a human being, when you see so many things, and you have to ride over the top of it all the time, like that, make yourself feel different. After while, you get into that kind of an atmosphere, until you look at things and just don't notice it, 'cause you you've--you've got yourself to that place.


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