The Battle of the Peace

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The Battle of the Peace

Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Theresa May fired former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Michael Heseltine from five government advisory roles. Lord Heseltine, who also served under former British Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, was reportedly forced out because he staunchly resisted Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Last week, Lord Heseltine explained why he rebelled against Brexit. “We’ve now abandoned the opportunity to influence Europe,” he said. “Our ability to speak for the Commonwealth within Europe has come to an end.” He pointed out that he was born in 1933, the same year Adolf Hitler came to power and just shortly before the German chancellor unleashed a “most horrendous” war. Britain played a vital role in defeating Germany.

Lord Heseltine believes that because Prime Minister May’s government has triggered Article 50, it has effectively handed Germany the opportunity to “win the peace.”

This extraordinary statement matches, almost word-for-word, a bold warning Herbert W. Armstrong proclaimed 72 years ago—when Michael Heseltine was just 12 years old! Germany, at that time, was prostrate beneath the rubble and ashes of a devastating defeat. United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had guaranteed that Germany would “never again” disturb the peace of the world.

“We need to wake up and realize that right now is the most dangerous moment in United States national history, instead of assuming we now have peace,” Mr. Armstrong warned in 1945, while attending the signing of the United Nations charter in San Francisco. “Men plan, here, to preserve the peace of the world. What most do not know is that the Germans have their plans for winning the battle of the peace. Yes, I said battle of the peace. That’s a kind of battle we Americans don’t know. We know only one kind of war. We have never lost a war—that is, a military war; but we have never won a conference, where leaders of other nations outfox us in the battle for the peace.”

Just as Mr. Armstrong predicted in 1945, Germany has outfoxed the United States and Britain. With Britain on the way out, Germany now runs Europe, and it hasn’t even fired a shot! For more on the remarkable similarities between Mr. Armstrong’s warning and Lord Heseltine’s comments about Brexit, listen to Friday’s Trumpet Daily Radio Show, “Germany Has Won the Battle of the Peace.”