October, 1939
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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I Views and Reviews of Current News By DAN GILBERT Washington, D. C , and San Diego, California
SHOCK: “Shock” was the mildest word used by the world’s diplomats and news commentators to describe the universal reaction to the newly formed Nazi- Soviet alliance. The Hitler-Stalin pact, although secretly in the process of form ulation for months, came as a bewilder ing surprise to the rulers of the nations of the world. In London, it was characterized as “a startling, astounding, shocking, stun ning surprise.” In Budapest, it was called a bombshell. In Paris, it was described as a “thunderbolt.” In Wash ington, D. C., it left speechless high officials in the State Department. The Nazi-Soviet accord was perfectly timed. It was announced at the very time that Chamberlain of England and Daladier of France were eagerly antici pating the completion of the Soviet- British-French agreement, which had been hanging fire for months. It is now clear that Stalin deliberately and in sincerely stalled along in the negotia tions with France and Great Britain, encouraging both nations with false hopes, in order that he might render the greatest help to Hitler at tfte most op portune moment, through his deceitful betrayal of the democracies. In all the world, the only people who were not shocked and surprised by the Soviet-Nazi concord were fundamental believers in God’s Prophetic Word. For months before even a few secular writers began to suggest this union, Louis S. Bauman, this writer, and other con tributors to THE KiNG’S BUSINESS set forth the reasons and evidences in dicating the approaching rapprochement of Russia and Germany. At the close of the year 1938, this writer stated that the outstanding de velopment of the current period was the multiplying of evidences of a coming together of the forces of Naziism and Communism. Looking forward into the new year, this writer set forth the opin ion that it would be featured by a ma turing of the Soviet-Nazi relationship. Truly, God’s Word is a record of “his tory written in advance.” Those who read the Word in this light are able to come to a comprehension of things be yond the grasp of the shrewdest human intellect relying on its own analytical powers. The course of world history, th e . cause of democracy, would have been powerfully influenced had Great Britain, or France, or Poland, or the United States, had at its head during
this series of developments a man who believed thoroughly in the Prophetic Word of God. Hitler could not have gained this special advantage, through Stalin’s duplicity, had Chamberlain and Daladier accepted God’s prophecy on the subject; they would have known in ad vance that their striving for a pact with the Soviets was foredoomed to failure. “To be forewarned, is to be fore armed.” Foreknowledge of the Soviet- Nazi “get together” could have been gained by the democracies through the acceptance of the Word of God. And foreknowledge of this development would have put the democracies in a position to prepare against it and neu
tralize its effectiveness in the hands of Hitler.
C OMMUN I S T CONSTERNATION: Stalin’s “sell-out” of the democracies to Hitler has upset the apple cart of Red propagandists in America. The Commu nists here have been insisting for months that Soviet Russia is the “true friend of democracy” and that she should lead the “fight against Fascism.” By use of this propaganda appeal, they had won many friends for the U. S. S. R. among leading “liberals.” Just a week before the announcement [Continued on page 404]
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