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with the Governor-General. From there on to Tokyo. I have been
informed that at Tokyo Prince Makasa, brother of Emperor Hirohito,
has invited Mr. Rader and me, with his wife and my daughter who are
with us, to be dinner guests of the Prince and the Princess, his
wife. I am to address a group of some 300 college and university
professors, which the Prince is arranging, while in Tokyo. Plans
are now developing for the opening of our Work to reach the
Japanese people. Many of our booklets are now translated into
Japanese. A number of students are now in their second or third
year learning the Japanese language. Mr. Gotoh, our Japanese
faculty member, is an experienced broadcaster. He has now been
baptized. Soon we will go on the air in Japan, where there are 100
million Japanese people. We may even be able to issue The PLAIN
TRUTH in the Japanese language.
And by the way, Prince Makasa has expressed his willingness
to come to Pasadena, remaining for one or two weeks, teaching a
class in the College.
I am especially grateful that we have been provided with our
own jet aircraft, for I could not make these important commitments
otherwise. I have before my seat on the plane a built-in bookcase
with an electric typewriter that lets down. I can write as we fly.
It is my office in the skies. I arrive fresh and alert, but on
smoke-laden commercial planes I have always been very fatigued at
destination after long flights. With all the sky-jacking of
commercial planes it would now be DANGEROUS for Garner Ted and me
to fly commercial. Both of us have had a number of threats on our
lives.
It is certainly providential that I have been invited to meet
so many world leaders, and heads of state in so many nations that
are of prime importance right now, with world conditions moving as
they are. I have sought NONE of these meetings, yet the
invitations come. They are aware that through our media of The
PLAIN TRUTH, our broadcasts, telecasts, etc., we reach and
influence into the hundred millions of people WORLDWIDE, and it is
significant that I have been given FAVOR in their sight. Naturally
they want to favorably impress me, for they know I am going to
write about our meetings.
Co-Workers, I think this gives you an idea of the tremendous
progress of the Work. As world conditions worsen RAPIDLY, heading
on into the grand smash CLIMAX that will END this age and this
society, this Work is speeding up, AS NEVER BEFORE, to GET THE JOB
DONE, before it is too late.
We did hurdle over our own financial crisis last
February-March, but the need to maintain all cutbacks has continued
up to now. But NOW the time has come when we must go back to
publishing The PLAIN TRUTH every month, beginning December. Also
TOMORROW'S WORLD magazine. Also there are many radio stations we
had cut down from seven days a week to one. We must put the
Message back on the air DAILY. New television stations have opened
to us in Canada, which I approved while in Australia, and so this
gives us, now, coverage in EVERY market in Canada, coast to coast
on television. New outlets are opening to us in the U.S.A. and