If anyone out there has a copy of the 1968 version of the "Truth Book", could they please scan and post/email pages 88-89?
Note, this must be the 1968 edition. I am investigating the changes between the 1968 version and the 1981 version. It has been alleged that paragraph 11 on page 88-89 in the old version reads like this:
More recently, the book entitled "Famine-1975!" [by W. & P. Paddock, 1967, pp. 52, 55, 61.] said concerning today's food shortages: "Hunger is rampant throughout country after country, continent after continent around the undeveloped belt of the tropics and subtropics. Today's crisis can move in only one direction - toward catastrophe. Today hungry nations; tomorrow starving nations.. By 1975 civil disorder, anarchy, military dictatorships, runaway inflation, transportation breakdowns and chaotic unrest will be the order of the day in many of the hungry nations.but since I don't have the 1968 version I can't confirm. Perhaps someone out there can help.
I do know that the 1981 version, as captured in the Watchtower 1999 CD-ROM, reads like this:
*** tr 88-9 10 God's Kingdom Comes to Power in the Midst of Its Enemies ***===========================
11 During and after World War II widespread food shortages added to the distress. Shortly after the war Look magazine observed:"A fourth of the world is starving today. Tomorrow will even be worse. Famine over most of the world now is more terrible than most of us can imagine. . . . There are now more people hunting desperately for food than at any other time in history."
More recent reports have shown that a constant lack of adequate food, resulting in chronic malnutrition, has become the "major world hunger problem today." The London Times reported:
"There have always been famines, but the scale and ubiquity [presence everywhere] of hunger today is on a totally new scale. . . . Today malnutrition is said to affect more than a thousand million people; perhaps as many as 400 million live constantly on the brink of starvation."-June 3, 1980.
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