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PIOSPBIITY 01
CALA
ITY!
Now
That Britain
ls
in the
Common
Market
Before there is
a
final prosperity in utopian peace
and we/1-being, grave things are prophesied for
Britain and Europe.
B
RITAIN is going to look back
on Monday , January
1,
1973,
in all probability, as a
most tragically historie date - a
date fraught with ominous potenti–
alities! For that date marked the
United Kingdom's entry into the
European Community.
But one could logically ask, how
could that event portend anything
unhappy for the United Kingdom?
Probably a majority in Britain ini–
tially looked forward to Common
Market entry with approval.
Humans seldom foresee unex–
pected happenings . But prophecy
pinpoints the major events in the
world's imminent future that will af–
fect us all!
For
39
years now, f've been tell–
ing our radio audience and PLA1N
TRUTH readers that a political union
of ten nations
in
Europe would rise,
resurrecting the Holy Roman Em-
PlAIN TRUTH Morch 1973
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
pire of the Middle Ages. I was pre–
dicting this even before World War
II. Of course, almost no one be–
lieved me, then.
Four years before Adolf Hitler
plunged the world into World War
11, an article appeared in the July
1935
PLAIN TRUTH. That article
might have been summarized by
this sentence in it: "Out of the
present Italy is to emerge a rein–
camation of the once great aod
powerful Roman Empire, by ao al–
liaoce of ten nations within its terri–
tory."
To Start as an Economic
Movement
Biblical prophecy revealed that
this empire would start as an eco–
nomic movement - that it would
bring an era of unusual prosperity
to Europe. It did start in March,
1957,
when six European countries
- West Gerrnany, France, ltaly,
Belgium, the Netherlands and Lux–
embourg signed the Treaty of
Rome, creating the European Eco–
nomic Community (EEC). It has
been known, of course, as the Com–
mon Market. And it carne into ac–
tive being on January
1, 1958.
lmmediately, "the Six" began toen–
joya new wave ofprosperity.
For years, European natioos have
wanted to
unite politically,
in
a sort
of"United States ofEurope." But so
far, political union has posed more
problems than they have been able
to solve. While Presideot Charles de
Gaulle of France lived, Germaoy
would never have yielded to accept
him as ruler over Germany. The
French would not accept a German.
Until sorne roan emerged , one
whom
al/
could accept as a supreme
authority, it seemed that they
were totally stymied. Meanwhile,
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