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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
August 13, 1959
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
Here it is, almost the middle of August. I wonder if we
are really awake to what is taking place. Once again Mrs.
Armstrong and I are on a train, on a business trip to Houston,
Texas.
TREMENDOUS things are happening in the world. If we are
not asleep, we can just see world events hurling us rapidly toward
the prophesied END of this world! The Geneva conference failed.
Of course, we knew it would! The people of America do not know the
real facts back of this Berlin controversy.
As World War II was ending, the heads of American and
British governments were too timid to demand an ever-widening strip
of East Germany, starting at West Berlin and widening like a
triangle westward to allied-occupied West Germany.
One under-secretary in the State Department foresaw the
need of this, and sketched a map showing allied occupation of such
a widening strip from West Berlin to West Germany. Remember,
Berlin is deep into Russian-occupied EAST Germany. The United
States, Britain and France occupy the western two-thirds of the
city of Berlin. But West Berlin is like an ISLAND, entirely
surrounded by Russian-controlled COMMUNIST Germany. United States
and allied forces have no way to get supplies, food, and
necessities of life into West Berlin, except to go through many
miles of RUSSIAN territory across East Germany--or to fly planes
over this Russian-held territory.
But in 1945, United States officials were afraid they
might offend the Russians if they demanded the allied control of
territory leading from West Germany to Berlin. They LEFT
THEMSELVES AT THE MERCY OF THE SOVIET. For 14 years American
forces have been getting supplies back and forth to and from West
Berlin ONLY by Russian permission! THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN
TOLD!
Now look what happened at Geneva. Secretary Herter went
there in the position of trying to talk the Russians into "PLEASE
PERMITTING" Americans to continue crossing Russian territory so
West Berlin may remain FREE from Russian domination. The Russians
want to take over ALL of Berlin. Last fall Khrushchev issued a
sort of ultimatum to the allies to GET OUT of West Berlin. West