Dafter interviewing become common practice 62. ______
in the United States, American journalists were
teaching Europeans what their own elites would 63. ______
submit to interviews. In 1879, an American named
James Creelman became a first person to interview 64. ______
the president of France. During World War I,
American correspondents helped transforming the 65. ______
standing of the interview in Britain. One of them
recalled, "You saw the immemorial aloofness of the
King of England wiping out at a tea party for 66. ______
American journalists at Sandringham; you beheld the
holy of holy of the British War Office as the setting 67. ______
of a weekly conference with reporters."
The World scored with the pope (Benedict
XV) again in 1915. Interviewing the pope seems to
have been the next best thing to interview God for 68. ______
American journalists, and they kept in citing papal 69. ______
interviews as earth shattering achievement. The 70. ______
United Press correspondent who interviewed Pope
Pins XI in 1929 was far from the first to do so, but
the UP boasted that he was at less the first to de so 71. ______
"in the private library of the Pontiff".