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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, March 7, 1980
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that "the whole head [government and its diplomacy] is sick and the whole
heart [national morale, or soul] faint."
Mr. Morgenthau concludes about the importance of diplomacy: "If its
vision is blurred, its judgment defective, and its determination feeble,
all the advantages of geographical location, of self-sufficiency in food,
raw materials, and industrial production, of military preparedness, of
size and quality of population will in the long run avail a nation little.
A nation that can boast of all these advantages, but not of diplomacy
conunensurate with them, may achieve temporary successes through the sheer
weight of its natural assets. In the long run, it is likely to squander
the natural assets by activating them incompetently, haltingly, and waste
fully for the nation's international objectives.
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God gave us plenty of natural assets (see Genesis 49:25-26)--but poor
statescraft is dissipating them rapidly.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau