In November 1938 the Branch headquarters of the Watch Tower Society in Australia received a telegram from J F Rutherford, president of the Watch Tower Society.
It read:
Australian
Consolation now beginning is a blessing to the people of that nation. It will
fearlessly proclaim the truth. Congratulations – Rutherford.
The explanation was
given
The very first issue of
the Australasian specific Consolation was dated November 20, 1938.
This was to prove fortuitous as the activities of the witnesses were to be banned in January 1941. The issue was finally decided legally in their favour in June 1943, but in the interim period they still produced and circulated their literature.
A curious fact from Poland. Consolation was never published regularly in our country. From 1936 to 1939, the magazine New Day (Nowy Dzień) was published, but only in Poland, when the government banned the publication of The Golden Age. The war caused this magazine to be discontinued on September 15, 1939 (The Watchtower continued to be printed clandestinely on mimeograph machines, but irregularly). At least three occasional Consolation (Pociecha) magazines were published during or after the war, and I have one of them (from 1946). (From Benek)
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