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VOLUME VIII. Number 1.
February 19, 1947
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The N E X T S E V E N Y E A R S ---WHAT'S AHEAD!
GREETINGS! dear Friends and Co-Workers:
Do you know you are just one day from Jerusalem!
But Moscow, Berlin, Rome, are even closer! More and more
distances are shrinking---the earth becomes smaller and smaller---
in this fast-moving era of the airplane!
The next seven years are destined to be the most momentous
years of America's history---of all earth's history! They will
see World War III shaping---perhaps even striking within that time!
What are Russia's real aims? Can two philosophies of how
this world ought to be run, how its business ought to be conducted,
and its society regulated, and its religion exercised, as opposite
as the poles, live together in a war-shrunken world!
"RED TIDE PERILS VAST U.S. SUPPLIES IN EUROPE," shouts a
newspaper headline over a dispatch from Karl H. von Weigand, dean
of American correspondents. From Rome, he wrote: "Months ago I
warned in cables that the Red Tide may soon be lapping at the foot
of the Pyrenees. Now, THE RED TIDE IS THERE! There remains in the
west only Spain and Portugal. . . Now Switzerland sees herself the
one last truly democratic citadel on the European continent,
surrounded on all sides by a Red Sea of Communism."
"RED PERIL SEEN IN FRENCH VOTE," comes another dispatch
from Washington. "RUSSIA STILL ON WAR BASIS," is the headline over
a dispatch from London.
"DOES EUROPE FACE HOLY WAR?" is the large-type headline of
an article in LIFE magazine, describing the dynamic new political
movement called "Christian Socialism" springing up all over Western
Europe like a prairie-fire, as a counter-fire to put out the Red
Flame of COMMUNISM. The opening sentence of the article says:
"Western Europe is moving fast toward a showdown with Communism."
A few terse, to-the-point sentences thru the article: "Recent
elections suggest that the showdown will likely be BETWEEN
CHRISTIANS AND COMMUNISTS." "Such is the view taken by the pope.
There are few more astute observers of European politics."
"European Protestantism may not yet have declared open war on