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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 1,. 1985
you could personally welcome the incoming freshmen (of which I am
one). Even while writing, I can see you out of my dorm window
here at Grove Terrace personally inspecting the construction tak
ing place nearby. I would just like to thank you for being such a
fine inspiration to us all!
D.J. (Pasadena, CA)
I am about to embark on one of the most exciting opportunities of
my life in a few days, being a freshman student at Ambassador
College, Big Sandy. This is in fact a very unusual thing, as I am
at last able to attend after seeking this goal for thirteen
years! I appreciate very much God's opening the door for me to
attend, in this, my third tithe year.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
R.H. (Big Sandy, TX)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
BRITAIN'S "DIGNIFIED DEMISE"; GREEN LIGHT AT LAST
FOR THE "CHUNNEL"?: CANADA'S "SWISS CHEESE" DEFENSE
Britain is going down--but in style, and with not a little flourish. That
seems to be the message the news commentators relay as the pound retreats to
historic new lows. To continue a theme begun last week, we present a few
more articles, beginning with comments by Anthony Lewis, syndicated colum
nist for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Mr. Lewis reported the following in his Jan
uary 25 column:
The world has got used to the decline of Britain••.• What Ameri
cans and others from rich countries mostly do about Britain is
cluck at its economic misfortune--and take advantage of it••••
More foreigners will fly over for the Harrods sale, or buy prop
erty in London.
For us it will be forever England, cozy and
quaint••••
Peter Jenkins of THE GUARDIAN•••wrote last month about the conse
quences "of a decade and a half of accelerated decline."
He
quoted an observer of 17th-century Spain as saying that its de
cline had become so rapid that "one can actually see it occurring
from one year to the next." Jenkins said: "We see it ourselves.
We see urban dilapidation and squalor, a rotting housing stock
and rusting transport facilities, shabby-looking people in filthy
streets and public places, things everywhere broken or not work-
•
n
1ng. •••
Economists and historians have traced the decline back to Victo
rian times.
The rot set in, they suggest, even as the empire
reached this apogee. The country emphasized glory abroad over
enterprise at home.
It rewarded philosophers and sneered at
businessmen. The roots of the British disease, it is often said,
are deep.
But the politicians of the last 20 years or so have certainly ac
celerated the trend•••• The worst of it is the lack of a credible
political alternative now. Labor has moved so far to the left•••
that it hardly seems a potential governing party•••• Peter Jen-