MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
do with and might have even been blamed for the Munich Agreement if the list of his sins were not so long already. Brown badly needed a successful visit and "good press."Instead, his U.S. visit was planned in such a way that it began several hours after the Pope arrived in America for a week-long inspection of his Catholic flock. Needless to say, the Pope totally eclipsed Brown who was mentioned only in a perfunctory manner. Even Brown's keynote foreign policy speech at Harvard University on April 18 will coincide with Pope Benedict XVI's UN address, which is the last scheduled public speech by the Pope in America.
The tone of the press coverage of Brown's visit would have been appropriate for an announcement of a rummage sale that would follow the performance of a traveling circus in a small town. 10 Downing Street tried to justify itself by saying that when the plans were drawn up nothing was known about the Pope's visit and once it was announced
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