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to him on that point . However, 1 held
it until he finished.
1Explain Future Course of
World Events
In another minute or so, he apolo–
gized for taking up all the time
himself, and then 1 said,
"Mr. Vice-Chairman , there is
something 1 want to say to you about
Western European defense against
the Soviet Union. 1do not expect you
to believe what I'm going to say, but
I'll tell you, and you can believe it
after it happens. There will be, with–
in the next few years, a union of 1
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nations or groups of nations, in West–
ern Europe-and it might include
two or three Russian satellite coun–
tries- in a union of church and
state-brought about · largely by the
Roman Catholic Church. Now I'm
not in any way in favor of it, but it
will form a short-lived giant world
power with military strength equal or
superior to either the United States
or Russia. They will have a common
currency, a common government and
a common military power.
It
will
emerge out of the present Common
Market. It is going to shock the
whole worldY
He grinned, shaking his head in
unbelief.
1 continued, "But what will happen
finally, after that, will be what many
world-famous scientists have said is the
world's only hope- though
~hey
also
say it is impossible. There will finally
come, in our time, a tremendous single
world power, with political and military
rule over
ALL
nations-r10 military
power tochallenge it."
1 speak with heads of governments
all over the world. All are faced with
problems, troubles and evils greater
than any man or group of men can
handle- although many or most
heads of state are unusually compe–
tent men. They are doing the best they
can, and l 'm trying to assist any way I
can asan ambassador for world péace.
But it will finally require what an
American editor called the interven–
tion of an unseen
' 'STRONG HAND
FROM SOMEPLACE" lO
bring about this
world-ruling Kingdom.
He knew well what 1 meant. With
this intensive smile still on his face,
he shook his head.
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"1 don't expect you to believe it
until it happens," 1 concluded.
"Meanwhile we will continue to help
toward world peace, working
WITH
you, in any way we can."
We had been with the vice-chair–
man for one hour, and we rose to
leave. He walked with us, with much
handshaking all the way to the outer
front door, his hospitable, exceeding–
ly warm smile never leaving his face.
He hoped
L
would come again.
Mr. Rader wrote to mea note, after
we had returned to Tokyo, saying:
"Since the vice-chairman undoubted–
ly had been advised of your strong
comments Monday night, and again
Tuesday night, I believe that he knew
full well that the uníted Europe and
the cataclysm that would follow were
directly connected with your com–
ments about the strong hand interven–
ing from someplace that would finaily
save mankind from complete destruc–
tion.''
The fact that Vice-Chairman Tan
was in such close relationship for so
many years with Chairman Mao and
Premier Chou, as well as being still one
of the three rop men in the Chinese
government, made this meeting one of
extraordinary importance- for these
three men
RULE A QUARTER OF ALL
THE PEOPLE ON EARTH!
Following this meeting there was
time to return to the State House for
a bite to eat and go to the theater for
a semi-ballet show sponsored by our
Ambassador International Cultural
Foundation. There was loud, stand–
ing applause when we walked into
the theater, and after the show's
conclus"ion we were led up on the
stage, to shake hands with the whole
cast and take bows to the standing
applause of the audience.
Thursday noon we left the State
House for the airport. There again
were severa! top offi.cials at the plane
to see us off.
Saturday night, January 8, there
was a banquet in my honor in Tokyo.
Severa! members of the Chinese
Embassy were there, and three or
four ambassadors from other coun–
tries, beside Mr. Yamashita and
other Japanese officials. Sunday was
the long flight all the way to Tucson,
Ariz., with only one refueling stop at
Cold Bay, Alaska.
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CHURCH UNITY
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bility" for the ministerial function of
seeking the unity of all Christians
"may be entrusted to one individual
minister under the gospel." They
agreed that "the bishop of Rome
... can in the future function in ways·
which are better adapted to meet
both the universal and regional needs
of the church in the complex environ–
ment of modern times."
The
t~st
as to how far the "dia–
logue" between the Roman Catholics
and the Lutherans has come may be
in evidence in early summer. On
June 25 Lutherans around the world
will be honoring the 450th anniversa–
ry of the Augsburg Confession.
The Augsburg Confession of. I530
red to the final break between Rome
and the Lutheran supporters, whose
real intent, they claimed, was to
reform the parent body. There will
undoubtedly be attempts on both
sides to reexamine the document this
year in the light of contemporary
ecumenism.
"Many of the articles of the Augs–
burg Confession do not seem to be
very relevant today," says Kirchen–
rat Werner Schnoor, former editor of
the newspaper of the Lutheran
Church in Mecklenburg, West Ger–
many. The dean of the School of
Religious Studies at the Catholic
University of America adds , "What
Lutherans and Roman Catholics
believe in common is far and away
more significant than what divides
them."
Overtures to Islam
In their joint statement in Turkey,
John Paul
JI
and Demetrios 1
declared that they are also looking
beyond Christian unity
to collabora–
tion with the believers of other reli–
gions and with all men of good will in
a program in which "!ove and broth–
erhood would overwhelm hate and
opposition."
_ Signi.ficantly, while he was in Tur–
key, the pope chose the capital of a
major Moslem country to send out a
clear message: the Roman Catholic
Church wants to sweep away centu–
ries of suspicion and mistrust be–
tween Christianity and Islam and
mov.e into a new era of cooperation.
The
PLAIN TRUTH