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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 27, 1982
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from these two regions in recent years, is becoming less and less European
in ancestry and culture.
Recently one of the "deans" of American nee-conservatism, Irving Kristel,
in a WALL STREET JOURNAL article, even called for the reshaping of NATO as a
strictly European institution. The 6,000 u.s.-controlled nuclear weapons
on hand in Europe, he said, should "simply be left behind" and the new Euro
pean NATO should be encouraged to develop its own long-ranged nuclear weap
ons "if it wished." After reshaping and rearming, Kristel added, this new
NATO "could then form an alliance with the U.S. if it so desired (as it
presumably would)."
What kind of cut-your-own-throat reasoning is this? A future, independent
nuclear-armed Europe, composed of nations at odds with the U.S. over funda
mental political and economic issues, would hardly remain allied with Amer
ica. Rather the opposite would be true, as Bible prophecy indicates: A
Europe allied against the U.s., perhaps in cooperation, for a while at
least, with its big trade partner to the East.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau