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handle our money constantly, and at ALL TIMES!
Now let me quickly tell you what has happened on this trip so
far.
In GERMANY: Two very significant things. We saw a completely
NEW, vigorous, hustling, prosperous Germany. Everywhere along the
autobahns, as well as industrial districts of the cities in the
booming Ruhr, we saw continuous columns of giant factory
smoke-stacks belching billows of smoke. I was in Germany three
years ago, and also five years ago. But today everything is more
prosperous. Store windows are displaying expensive mink coats for
women, luxury decorative items for homes, electrical appliances of
all kinds. On the autobahns as we drove along in a rented car, we
counted the high quality Mercedes cars and also the low-priced
Volkswagens--and mile after mile it ran 50-50---just as many
Germans today driving their most expensive car (and they cost in
America up to $13,000) as the low-priced Volkswagen! What would
you think if you saw just as many Cadillacs and Lincolns and
Mercedes on American highways as Fords and Chevrolets? To show you
how German industry is booming, their highways are literally
clogged with big industrial trucks. Actually we found autobahn
traffic as heavy and congested as U.S. traffic on super-highways or
free-ways between our largest cities; and for every 100 passenger
cars there were about 70 trucks.
We stood at Mr. Adenauer's entrance gate and took some
pictures which you may see in The PLAIN TRUTH. But while we looked
in at his home, Dr. Adenauer was a very worried man--for those were
the days when the minister of finance, Ludwig Erhard, who has
planned and produced all this German industrial prosperity, was
calling him a liar, and starting the campaign to oust Herr Adenauer
--THUS PAVING THE WAY FOR THE COMING PROPHESIED FUEHRER--the coming
"BEAST" of Revelation! So keep your eye on Ludwig Erhard! He
could be that man! GERMANY IS NOW JUST ABOUT READY FOR THIS LEADER
YOUR BIBLE SPEAKS OF TO SHOW HIMSELF AND TAKE OVER!
In DENMARK AND SWEDEN: Here are important nations, with
Norway, which we are not yet really reaching with the Gospel. We
flew direct from Los Angeles to Copenhagen, via the polar route.
We flew over the snow-covered mountains of Greenland. This is the
shortest route to Germany. We also visited Stockholm. In
Copenhagen we visited the offices and studios of the only
non-government radio station in these Scandinavian countries. More
than a half million people listen regularly to this station. Just
while I was writing the paragraph above this one, a telephone call
came thru from the manager of the station. When we were there,
they told us they cannot consider taking any religious broadcasts,
because of government considerations. But just now--while I was
writing the words above, the station manager called me and said
they have made arrangements so they can OPEN THE DOOR to us! Yes,
GOD IS STILL OPENING DOORS that have been closed to all others!
This manager has heard our program on Radio Luxembourg, and says if
we will send him our programs on tape, with type-written script of
the words, they can translate the programs into Danish, and speak
them with the same kind of speech we do in English. Garner Ted and
I are to fly to Rome tomorrow, and this man said he would try to