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startled audiences in subsequent
issues of the magazine. The
demise of the once proud British
Empire was proclaimed in
The
Plain T r uth
long befo r e the
Empire was offic ia ll y ended.
Today, the Empire upon which
the sun never set is merely a shad–
ow of its former self.
For a more in-depth look at why
the demise of Britain and the
United States has taken place-as
well as fu ture problems they will
face-please write for a free copy
of
The United States and Britain
in Prophecy.
Korea and Viet nam
1
n 1950, because of an absent
Soviet delegation, the United
Nations voted to send troops to aid
the beleaguered South Korean
nation. T he United States moved
into the area to block the commu–
nist advance in a pol ice action
designed to force the North Ko–
reans to the bargaining table.
The Plain Truth.
however,
warned the United States, then at
the very pinnacle of its might and
strength, that it had won its last
war.
The United States and its U.N.
allies did not win in Korea. T hey
merely succeeded in gaining a
draw . Vietnam, however, was
another matter altogether.
Many of the United States'
closest all ies stood helplessly by
while this floundering giant be–
carne mired in a war of nerves.
There was no surrender of Ameri–
can troops ... just of the will to
fight. T his war was lost, not in the
jungles or rice paddies of Vietnam,
but in the television sets in the liv–
ing rooms of America. It was an
even worse defeat than any could
have imagined.
As the May 1968 issue of
The
Plain Truth
noted, "Bible proph–
ecy reveals that not even America,
with all of her nuclear muscle, can
prevent Southeast Asia from even–
tually being overrun by commu–
nism."
That was stated seven years
before N orth Vietnamese forces
conquered Saigon, ending the exis–
tence of the Republic of South
Vietnam and sealing the fate of
Laos and Cambodia.
(Continued on page JO)
February 1984
Why THE PLAIN TRUTH
Has No Subscription Price
For half a century The Plain Truth has given its readers an
understanding of how a world surcharged with incredible
progress can be so afflicted with appalling troubles.
Yet this magazine of understanding is made available with–
out a subscription price. Why?
When Herbert W. Armstrong first conceived of the idea, in
1927, of publishing a magazine called The Plain Truth, he
believed it must be a different kind of magazine. ltwould have
no outside advertising, no price. Mr. Armstrong learned that
God says that we should "buy the truth, and sell it not" (Prov.
23:23). lndeed, he learned that God's way is simply the way
of " give."
Today, The Plain Truth is a mass-circulation magazine
spanning the globe in seven languages with a circulat ion of
more than six million copies each month.
As it has been since its modest debut in 1934, this mas–
sive undertaking is made possible by tithes and freewill con–
tributions of those who voluntarily, without solicitation or
request, have joined us in this " give" way of life.
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