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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, September 5, 1980
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Significantly, Mr. Armstrong mentions Austria as one of the nations to
watch. Austria is a neutral nation on the eastern flank of non-Communist
Europe. Even today it acts as the bridge between East and West Europe.
But in a reconstituted Roman Empire, Austria--with its ranowned capital,
Vienna, the seat of authority for the Holy Roman Empire for hundreds of
years--would be in the very center of things.
Kept on display in the Schatzkamer, or Royal Treasury in the old Imperial
Palace (Hofburg) in Vienna is the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, dating
back to the time of Otto the Great in the tenth century. It seems to be
waiting for one final emplacement. The crowning of the secular authority
of the soon-coming church-state combination might occur in that city of
intense European tradition--the seat of authority for the Holy Roman
Empire for hundreds of years.
Perhaps for a reason, a massive governmental complex has been completed
along the banks of the Danube in Vienna. Called "U.N. City," it belongs
to the government of Austria, but has been leased in part to the United
Nations as a "third" U.N. headquarters. Might it be used for other pur
poses in the future?
Keep your eyes on Poland, the Polish Pope--who will visit West Germany in
mid-November!--and Austria.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau