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VOL. V Number 1
January 19, 1944
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Published every little while by your radio-pastor
editor, Herbert W. Armstrong, Box 111, Eugene, Ore.,
to bring spiritual edification and encouragement to
our little family of Co-workers who make possible
the RADIO CHURCH OF GOD and The PLAIN TRUTH.
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WHAT'S G O I N G TO HAPPEN IN 1 9 4 4 ?
Where do we stand in this war, and what will happen this
year?
President Roosevelt says military victory is now
CERTAIN. General Eisenhower has made the flat statement that we
will win in Europe this year.
Victory, our people seem now to believe, is "just around
the corner"---the Germans are almost crushed and about ready to
surrender. And consequently most people, I'm afraid, are assuming
this will be a soft, easy, rosy year---a victorious year, in which
we shall win, our boys shall come home, we shall enter into a
beautiful and harmonious peace relationship with Russia as well as
the other "United Nations," and we may begin to indulge in the
expected post-war luxurious living. It's a blissful dream---but
it's only a DREAM! And it's time we woke up, and come to a
knowledge of the true facts as they exist!
The stern FACTS are that regardless of whether the war
ends this year or not, in all likelihood this year will go down in
history as "the YEAR OF THE GREAT SLAUGHTER!"
The President, while predicting certain victory, has
tried to prepare the public for what he knows now lies immediately
ahead. In an effort to shake the American public out of its
sublime complacency and jar it to its heels, to prepare it and
brace it for the coming shock, a statement was issued the other day
in Washington that American casualties during the next eight to ten
weeks probably will be three or four TIMES as heavy as our total
war casualties during the past two years, since "Pearl Harbor." So
far our casualties have been comparatively light. But the next two
or three months will see this war brought home to all of us.
Last Fall I foresaw a possibility of this war being
brought to an armistice (temporary recess) in Europe, by
conferences behind closed doors. I foresaw the possibility that
the "trial balloon" thrown up in Italy, in which the Italians
received not only a separate peace but actually a "co-belligerent
status" with the allies, might be tried out in Germany.
The idea was that the German army generals would do away
with Hitler, disown the Nazi party, withdraw entirely out of
Russia, and seek to make peace, first with Russia, and then, on the
strength of that come to terms with the Allies on a basis that