David O. McKay · 1966 April General Conference · 1966-04-09
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing against the Internet Archive conferencereport1966a scan. Archive snapshot pending.
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Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingestion of a missing discourse: a formal statement by President McKay on the Church's position on Communism and political neutrality, read to the General Priesthood Meeting by his son Robert R. McKay immediately following McKay's preceding message on perilous times and family (ingested separately as 1966-04-mckay-it-is-a-joy-and-a-great-privilege.md). The report itself gives this item its own caption ('Statement concerning the position of the Church on Communism, made by President David O. McKay at the general priesthood session... read by Robert R. McKay'), distinguishing it as a distinct titled item rather than a continuation of the preceding address; it contains substantive doctrinal and policy teaching (on free agency, political neutrality, and the Church's stance toward Communism) rather than mere administrative announcement, so it is included per the vault's discourse criteria despite lacking a closing testimony/Amen. Flagged as missing in a prior heavyweight pass's note on the sibling Tanner file (1966-04-tanner-brethren-it-is-good-to-be-with.md). Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1966a's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py); confirmed this ends immediately before President Hugh B. Brown's closing announcements and the meeting's adjournment. De-hyphenated and reflowed against the scan text. Renumbered talk_order 27, following directly after the preceding McKay message (talk_order 26) and ahead of the conference's Third Day session (now beginning at talk_order 28 after the 1966-04-mckay-it-is-a-joy-and-a-great-privilege.md renumbering).
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