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AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman
Publisher of The PLAIN TRUTH Magazine
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
An educational service at all levels
for all people worldwide
October 25, 1973
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers
with Christ in His Work:
At 10:00 o'clock this morning, in a nationwide telecast,
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave the Soviet Union WARNING
against sending its military forces into the Middle East.
At this minute -- as I write -- we face suddenly a new
crisis -- with the question of human survival on earth in the
balance. It is the most grave crisis since World War II.
During the night, President Nixon called on alert all military
forces of the United States around the world -- Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marines -- the entire military might of the nation.
The crisis kept the President and Secretary of State up until
3:00 o'clock this morning. This TOTAL EMERGENCY ALERT of U.S.
military might was intended as a WARNING that the U.S. is aware
of the possibility the Soviet might send massive military power
into the Middle East ostensibly to "enforce the cease-fire."
IF this should happen, one of two things would result:
Either the U.S. would retaliate, which might mean sudden
NUCLEAR WAR that could erase all human life from the earth
(meaning yours and mine), or:
The world would stand aghast at seeing the "Russian Boot"
planted solidly in the Middle East. And once there, the Russians
would never leave unless a stronger power drove them out. And
there is no stronger power! But this situation would, in my
judgment (based on Biblical prophecy), force a crash program in
Europe for a UNITED STATES OF EUROPE into ONE EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT
that could be stronger than either Russia or the United States!
Whether any such development occurs or not, this crisis
serves to WARN US ALL, and the world, that we are living in such
times that such a colossal unprecedented event could happen any
minute.
Here is what has happened:
The Kremlin has been well aware that the Watergate crisis,
plus the forced resignation of Vice President Agnew, threw the
U.S. Government into confusion. It gave them an opportunity to
act when they thought America was so crippled it could not prevent