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my speech at a dinner in Bangkok was appointed by the King as the
new Prime Minister. Again, this past May 21, this Prime Minister's
cabinet resigned and walked out, and the Prime Minister with them.
I was in Bangkok when it happened. The King asked the Prime
Minister to stay on, that same evening, and the next day, the most
crucial day of his life, the Prime Minister gave me more than a
half-hour of his time, in a personal private meeting.
There was also another major government crisis in Athens,
Greece, last year. Now see what has been happening JUST LATELY!
Yesterday, the Greek military government QUIT, asking the
political civilian government to come back. When the military
regime overthrew the Greek government, in 1967, I was in Athens
that same day.
Nine days ago a military coup d'etat overthrew the
government of Cyprus, and drove out Archbishop Makarios, the
President. The Turks started a war, landed troops and paratroops
on Cyprus. U.N. and United States pressure brought a "cease fire"
which, as usual, did not cease immediately.
There was the recent overthrow of the government of
Portugal. In Japan, Prime Minister Tanaka just barely avoided
seeing his government overthrown. Yesterday the United States
Supreme Court issued a UNANIMOUS decision that President Nixon must
surrender another 64 White House tapes. This may finally tip the
scales to impeach President Nixon. There was the recent ousting of
the conservative government in Britain. And on and on the
overthrow of government goes.
But in just the past three or four weeks, my "Testimonial
Dinner" in Jerusalem, has been set for September. This will be
attended by 100 leaders, to hear the Gospel. At a luncheon at The
Hague President Lachs of the World Court of Justice invited me to
visit the top officials of Poland, chief of the satellite countries
in the Russian orbit in eastern Europe. This will lead to contacts
with heads of state in other satellite countries such as
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and we already have contacts established
with the president and top officials of Romania.
My meeting, less than a month ago, with King Hussein of
Jordan is opening up the entire Arab world. In January I met the
Prime Minister here in Cairo, and he has eagerly set up a private
meeting in two days, at Alexandria, Egypt, with President Sadat.
I spent a week in Lebanon last September, and virtually an entire
day with the president of that Arab country. So now the whole Arab
world is opening to us.
In two weeks I am to meet in Hawaii several or all of my
"eight Japanese sons," all top members of the Japanese Diet (their
Parliament or Congress). We are to fly in my plane on a whirlwind
trip for meetings with heads of state in some four or five South
American capitals. My Japanese "sons" as they call themselves are
again on an official government mission, with the prestige of the
Japanese government, assisting in opening up more personal meetings
for me to get Christ's Message before government heads in these