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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL.2, N0.2
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME
by Herbert W. Armstrong
JANUARY 11, 1980
In the past two weeks, this world has entered into a "whole new ball
game."
The intervention of -the Soviet Union in Afghanistan changes the
whole world picture.
Or, does it?
President Carter has said this new development has given him a new
insight and appraisal of Communist Russia.
It gave me no such thing.
I
wrote thirty and even 46 years ago, the nature and the undeviating policy
and corrunitment of the Communist Party which runs the Soviet Union.
I wrote then that nothing will dissuade the Kremlin rulers but MILI
TARY FORCE that is SUPERIOR TO THEIRS.
In 1945--thirty years ago--I was writing articles and making broad
casts comparing Communist Russia to a huge BEAR, lumbering along, kicking
against doors.
If the door caved in, the bear waddled on in, and once it
planted its huge feet inside it would never move out unless driven out by
a superior force.
But, I then said, if a snarling bulldog came growling
viciously at the bear from inside, the bear would draw back and run lum
beringly away.
The Russian Communists don't want a war they can't win.
That's why
for some years we had the "cold war."
The U.S. was keeping even with them,
or was superior, in armaments and nuclear warfare development.
Even so,
the Russians pushed at the U.S. as far as they safely could without endan
gering a nuclear showdown--which they would avoid at any cost.
I was saying over the air, and writing, back in 1934, that the Com
munist unwavering strategy was, as a first offensive toward world domina
tion, propaganda.
They began sowing the seeds of their Communist atheistic
education all over the u.s.--especially among college professors and stu
dents.
They invaded American university campuses, full force, and U.S.
universities trustingly let them in.
They made inroads into the U.S.
Government structure.
The State Department was a fertile working ground
for their doctrines.
The State Department official who authorized my
credentials as a press representative attending the San Francisco Confer
ence in 1945, where the Charter for the United Nations was formed, was
later convicted as a Communist spy.
The Communist permanent policy, to which all party members are sol
emnly dedicated, calls first for a war of propaganda
(call it education
if you will).
Next, a war of nerves, or "cold war," short of actual
military offensives, then in countries where sufficient inroads have been
made, such as South Vietnam, support of guerrilla warfare.
The unchanging policy has been, where the Russian bear plants its
boot, it never removes it, unless driven out by superior force.