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decades- in many ways for the
worse-if one were to look closely
at the world scene today, one wou Id
probably find sorne unsettling simi–
larities with the world of 50 years
ago-in which lived a generalion
that Franklin Roosevelt noted had
a "rendezvous with destiny."
The World in 1934
Fifty years ago, the world was in
the midst of the worldwide Great
Depression. Economic recovery was
only just beginning to take shape in
a few countries.
Few worried about what was
happening with the environment or
what was taking place in far-off
places. The biggest question on
people's minds was how lo get a job
or how to hold on to the one they
had.
Families were still close. The
pace of life was more sane. And
yet, there was an uneasiness, a ten–
sion in the air.
The United States was
debating the issue of whether
or not to continue the prohi–
bition of the sale of alcohol,
and the merits of Roosevelt's
N ew Deal . Eu rope was in
turmoil. Fascists and com–
munists were battling for
control of the hearts and
minds of the entire conti–
nent.
The Plain Truth
asked,
" l s a World Dictator About
to Appear? "
As the world began to approach
the latter half of the 1930s, many
truly wanted to believe British
Prime Minister Neville Chamber–
lain, who proclaimed "peace in our
time."
The Winds of War
"When will the next war come?
Which will be first, the war precip–
itated by Russia ... or the reviva(
of the Roman Empire?"
T his question posed by
The
Plain Truth
in 1934 was answered
five years later. Soon H itler's
armies were rolling over Poland
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and then the rest of Europe.
The war had begun.
As the Nazi Afrika Korps
began to close in on Palest ine
(see Dani e l 11 :40-43) in
1942, many began to think in
terms of Armageddon. How–
ever, in the November 1939
Plain Truth,
Mr. Armstrong noted
that "This may not, after all, be the
'Armageddon War ' at all!"
He proved to be right. T he Allies
did turn the tide of battle and final–
ly crushed the Axis powers after
ncarly six years of bloody struggle
that took 50 million lives.
Yet, even as a shattered Germa–
ny lay prost rate under a heap of
rubble, the editor in chief of
The
Plain Truth
was informing a war–
weary world that the German
nation would rise, phoenixlike,
from the ashes of the T hird Reich
to become a major economic and
military
power once again, but in
the framework of a united
Europe.
Even befo re World War 11
began , this magazine informed its
readers of the prophesied formation
of a new "United States of
Europe."
The June-Jul y 1943 issue of
The
Plain Truth
explained: "T he 17th
chapter of Revelation tells us the
ancient Roman Empire will be once
more revived, this time by a federa–
tion of 1O nations."
Jn 1958, the groundwork for that
resurrection of the once powerful
Roman Empire was laid with the
inception of the European Com–
mon Market.
Today, the European Communi–
ty consists of 1O nations- many of
which had only a few decades ago
batt1ed each other in the Second
World War.
The Plain Truth
con–
tinues to watch the ebb and flow of
Europcan política! and religious
trends to keep o u r r eaders
informed of the latest develop–
ments there.
A Perilous Age
Near tbe end of the Second World
War, a different weapon was intro–
duced into the arena of human con–
flict. We were now living in the
atomic age.
"Where Are We Headed ?
What's prophesied from here? Will
we have hydrogen war?" Thi s
headline from the ovember 1953
issue of
The Plain Truth
under–
scores the uneasiness mankind has
learned to live with under the shad–
ow of the nuclear bomb.
Similarly, other import ant
events to occur in the course of
passing decades were revealed to
The
PLAIN TRUTH