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Add to all this the broadcasting by radio and television,
and the vast number reached all around the world by our double-
page and full-page advertising space purchased in Reader's Digest,
LIFE, LOOK, The LONDON TIMES, T.V. GUIDE in the United States, and
other leading mass-circulation magazines and newspapers in Germany,
South Africa, the Philippines, Australia, etc., and the Work is
reaching, worldwide, between 150 and 200 MILLION PEOPLE! And soon,
now -- Japan and the few remaining countries of this earth!
With so many MILLIONS of people being reached all over the
world, it has become NECESSARY to the Work that I, as well as my
son, Garner Ted, and others on our editorial and research staffs,
maintain a grasp and insight into world conditions such as is
possessed by few on earth! As Editor of The PLAIN TRUTH and
TOMORROW'S WORLD -- with such multiMILLION readerships -- these
personal conferences with rulers of nations around the world are
providing very important material for articles. Still more, they
are giving me increased UNDERSTANDING and insight into the
problems faced by many of the world's chief rulers, usually not
disclosed to reporters, correspondents or editors of commercial
magazines or newspapers.
Until recently we had reached, in this Great Commission,
primarily the grass roots -- the masses of the common people --
the RULED. But in this greatest Mission in 1900 years, it NOW has
become NECESSARY that we get directly to those in TOP POSITIONS
OF POWER -- AT THE TOP -- THE RULERS! The Work had, of necessity,
begin where it did. The time NOW has come when those who wield
the POWER must also be reached! Of myself -- or with the HUMAN
ability of our entire organization -- it would, indeed have been
IMPOSSIBLE!
But -- and I want you to REALIZE THIS SOBERLY -- once that
unseen Hand from Someplace, as spoken of by The United States News
and World Report, had miraculously OPENED THESE DOORS, if I had
not walked on through them in faith, ANOTHER WOULD HAVE BEEN
RAISED UP WHO WOULD WALK THROUGH THEM.
THINK what a great Work has been generated! And yet, WHAT
A SHAME that I have to tell you it is facing a financial CRISIS,
in which we may even have to STOP publication of The PLAIN TRUTH!
I'm not going to say any more. God's people don't beg! To just
simply state the NEED -- the critical CRISIS NEED -- ought to be
enough.
In the June number of The PLAIN TRUTH -- and I HOPE we'll be
able to print and send out such a vast number of copies -- I'll
give you my report on my conference with Mrs. Golda Meir, Prime
Minister of Israel, and also of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister
of India. I will give you my own close-up personal portrait
evaluation of those two outstanding women -- sitting in seats of
TREMENDOUS POWER in a very sick, war-inflamed world!
Until next month, when I will reveal to you, in confidence,
the incredible circumstances by which these giant doors have
opened before me, I leave a mighty serious crisis-decision in
your hands.