In 1936, when Brother Rutherford addressed overflow audiences in Glasgow and London on the subject “Armageddon,” the Society employed a new advertising device, namely, parades of up to seventy-five Witnesses wearing sandwich boards. This made a striking impact on the public. Many Roman Catholics came to the Glasgow meeting despite having been warned by their priests not to attend.

1973 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1972.  p. 114

Meanwhile, fears of war were rising in Britain. Hitler’s take-over of Czechoslovakia brought Great Britain to the brink of war. Prime Minister Chamberlain, in pursuit of his appeasement policy, visited Hitler in Munich, Germany, and returned with a signed piece of paper. Stepping from the plane, Chamberlain waved the paper exulting, “Peace in our time.” “Armageddon,” reported the press, “has been averted.” Nevertheless, preparations for war increased. Activity in the Kingdom ministry surpassed by far that of any previous year. There was a feeling among the brothers that days of testing lay ahead—a need for the firmest marshaling of resources

1973 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1972.  p. 115

Publication title: J. O. Blankson, a pharmacy student, had first said that Claude Brown must be a fool to challenge the doctrine of the soul’s immortality. He attended a lecture by Brown and found that the ones uninformed were on his own side of the argument. Of course, he changed sides. At a subsequent lecture he obtained the book The Battle of Armageddon and devoured its contents with real gusto. On the endsheet he wrote: “I thank God for this great message that I have been able to receive. May he encourage me to understand. John Ottoe Blankson, 5th November, 1924.”

1973 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1972.  p. 147, 148

They asserted that the doctrine of the Trinity was false and advocated a ‘Jehovah’ monotheism; that all religions other than that of the Todai-sha were inventions of Satan, and that the political organization of the world was also an invention of Satan causing oppressive war, poverty and disease; that Christ would rise and destroy these satanic inventions in Armageddon and construct the Kingdom of God.

1973 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.  1972.  p. 215

Siding with God’s ruler involves accepting his judgments. (Chap. 14; 10 min.) Many feel God’s standards too strict or that executional work at Armageddon is cruel.

Kingdom Ministry.  September 1972  p. 5

It is our desire to contact all persons in the territory assigned to our congregation, isn’t it? Why? Because we realize that this generation is faced with the impending destruction of Babylon the Great, as well as the Armageddon destruction of all who have not taken their stand on Jehovah’s side. (Rev. 18:1-3, 8; 19:11-21)

Kingdom Ministry.  November 1972 p. 8

? The literature offer for December is the New World Translation and the book Is the Bible Really the Word of God? for $1.25.

The offer for January through April will be a year’s subscription for The Watchtower, with one of the bound books copyrighted in 1961 or earlier, for $1.50. Subscriptions for both The Watchtower and Awake! may be offered, with two of the older bound books, for $3.00. Reimbursement of individual publishers and of congregations for such books given free with new subscriptions will be handled in the same manner as during October. The Society still has on hand a sizable stock of What Has Religion Done for Mankind? and “New Heavens and a New Earth.” There is a more limited supply of You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World and “Your Will Be Done on Earth.”

Kingdom Ministry.  December 1972 p. 7

It was made clear to me that my relying on “medicines” was spiritism and condemned by the Bible. God, I learned from the Bible, was opposed to all forms of divination and magic. The next words of the Witness startled me: ‘All who continue to practice such things will not survive “the war of the great day of God the Almighty,” called Armageddon, nor will they live in the glorious new system of things!”—Rev. 16:14, 16.

Awake! March 8, 1972 p. 10

Publication title: You can be greatly aided in gaining such knowledge by obtaining one or all of the following Bible study aids: “New Heavens and a New Earth,” You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, What Has Religion Done for Mankind? and “Your Will Be Done on Earth.” You can obtain all of them for $2 and thereby build a fine Bible library.

Please send me the following books (check which): □ “New Heavens and a New Earth,” □ You May Survive Armageddon into God’s New World, □ What Has Religion Done for Mankind? and □ “Your Will Be Done on Earth.” Enclosed is $‐‐‐‐. (Send 50c per book for the ones that you want. You will also receive a gift booklet with each book you order.)

Awake! March 8, 1972 p. 32

What is the position of Protestant religions toward the conflict now? Jesuit Robert Drinan in his recent book Vietnam and Armageddon points to “the almost unanimous sentiment among Protestant theologians that the Vietnam war is morally indefensible.”2

Awake! April 22, 1972 p. 5, 6

2. Vietnam and Armageddon, Robert Drinan, p. 3.

Awake! April 22, 1972 p. 29

13. Vietnam and Armageddon, pp. 192, 193.

Awake! April 22, 1972 p. 29

Persons of strong faith realize that it will require God’s new system to bring genuine security. As one of the survivors of Agnes’ fury said: “We are looking forward to the time after the great storm of Armageddon when the earth can be thoroughly cleaned up.

Awake! August 22, 1972 p. 16

Writers have called it “an event as close to Armageddon as this country has ever known.”

Awake! September 22, 1972 p. 11

Is it enough to withdraw from such doomed religious systems? No, for God’s prophetic word shows that the beastlike political systems will themselves thereafter come in for destruction in what is called God’s war of Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:11-21)

Awake! October 8, 1972 p. 22