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EXCERPTS FROM MR. ARMSTRONG'S STUDENT ASSEMBLY, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10
Well, nice to be back again, but this is my second time this year with
you already, and it still isn't Thanksgiving. I haven't appeared be
fore the students in a forum or assembly that many times in a whole
year for several years.
Now, over in post World War II Britain, the United States, France and
so on--the Allies--won the war. We lost the peace. We have not won
the peace. We're still, to our sorrow, going to find that out, and I
think it may be rather soon. Incidentally, things have been going on
down at the Vatican in Rome, we really should keep our eyes on it,
because it may be something that's going to affect every one of our
lives rather drastically.
I have now been, for forty-four years, proclaiming that Europe will
unite. Now forty-four years ago we weren't past World War II yet, but
even during World War II I thought they would unite very soon after the
war was over. The nations in Europe all want to unite. They want a
common currency.
You know, you go from one nation to another, it's like going from one
state to another here in the United States. You're going from one nation
to another, and they all speak different languages. You get in the
next nation, the first thing you have to do is go to the bank, usually
right at the airport, and transfer some of your money into their money,
because you can't use your money there. You've got to get their money
to spend. In France you have to get the French franc, in Germany, the
German mark, and in Switzerland, the Swiss franc. And so it goes. They
want a common currency. Now, I understand they're working on it now to
try to get it, but I don't know what kind of progress they're making.
Also they would like to be politically united. Now, they did work
out the Common Market as you know, a good many years ago, and while we
were still operating the college in England. And, of course, for a
while it was quite a big political question in England, as to whether
England should go in on it or not. I said all the time that, whether
they should or not is not for me to decide, but that they won't stay
in it. When the United Europe comes up, or the United States of Europe,
what it will really be is a resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire, the
medieval Holy Roman Empire from 554 to 1814 A.D. And if and when they
get it, there's only one way they can and that is the way it was all
through those years, where the papacy sat on top and ruled over the
kings. You'll find it described in the seventeenth chapter of Revela
tion.
Anyway, we know they've had this in mind. We know, also, that at the
Vatican they've had it in mind. Every political move of that kind, of
course, is an extremely complicated thing, and rt takes an awful lot of
planning and maneuvering and manipulating and everything else before
they bring it about. I expected it back in the time of Pope Pius. When
he died and Pope John XXIII was elected, I thought surely he would be
the pope that would do this. But when I saw who they had selected and
saw his picture, I thought, why he doesn't look like the man that I
looked for to fill this role in the world's "progress" here, or lack of
it. And he tried the ecumenical movement of getting the churches to
gether, that is, the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and then the