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invited you to inspect his factories. In other words, he does represent the people and you aren't butting in.

I don't say that the mayor would receive an ordinary tourist in that way and that wouldn't be essential. But I was making an official visit and was carrying out certain functions, like visiting factories, which were a part of my official field of interest.

So we get a great many foreign visitors who come to Washington to study something or other. They come to the Civil Service Commission and I always feel it's important to receive them nicely. For instance, just yesterday (10 December 1952) I had to receive French managerial executives from both the government and industry who were here on one of these exchange visits. I was asked to greet them, give them the freedom of the department, tell them something of our department, and so forth. They feel better. Everybody feels better. They've been invited. They have our permission to look over things.

You feel very awkward butting in to look at more than a tourist looks at in any country without the official welcome. And it's all said in a ceremonial welcome. I don't want to press the ritual of religion on anyone, but it's so much easier for people to take part in a religious experience through an organized ritual than it is through a lot of