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Show The fun Paco Six (Chronicle, Thursday, November 24, 1961 MEl,iCHOO ' BY DR. FRANK ND7BUCHMAN World his address goet to the world through press, television end radio from the Moral this 4. on At the June occasion Switzerland Assembly at of 83rd Dr, Buchmans Caux, Assembly birthday, leaders from every continent are meeting to plan a global strategy to answer corruption. Communism and war, j YEARS AGO THIS MONTH tiere Oxford a man who had some knowledge of life, some insight into the ways of East and VVest, who had spent days with Gandhi in India in China. In what is now Kerala and Sun Yat-se- n he met an English Bishop who said, You nfust go to Oxford. They need the experience you have FORTY Minister 3e Gasper!,) Prime Minister $chuman and Chancellor 'peani to the Hauer. ! found." . , k I- i Prime Minister de Gasper! expressed his con--1 vlction that Moral by going to the root of the worlds evils will bring about the understanding between men and nations for which all people long." ' Prime Minister Schuman wrote, What Moral brings us is a philosophy of life applied in action. It is not a question of a change ' of policy. It is a question of changing men. Democ- racy and her freedoms can be saved only by. the A quality of the men who speak in her name." Chancellor Adenauer knows the value fcf He says it has played, an Moral invisible but effective part in bridging differences of opinion between negotiating parties in impor- - j tant international agreements." These brave men chose. Now a world-wid- e army is surging forward on every continent. During those forty years, the conviction he brought to Oxford has been a live issue, rousing men and nations through those who have chosen r rejected his challenge. the It was an Oxford man, who had been inman a e twenty-fivfor years, Parliament British who played a part in the Cyprus settlement, who this week spoke up for this conviction in public debate. A week before, the head of a college spoke boldly of it in introducing that great African film, Freedom, to an Oxford audience. These men, and many others, are in the line of those who in Britains history have brought integrity into national life by their Brave Men ' decision. The title of this speech, Choose, is taken from a book by an Oxford man on this very theme, that brave men turn the course of history. One such man in Oxford was Professor Streeter. The message rang a clarion call to this great scholar. It challenged him. It touched him. In Oxford Town Hall, before many members of the University, he said, I have been watching this work with what diplomatists call benevolent neutrality. Tonight I have decided... During these last years I have felt the world situation becoming more full of depression, more full of despair. There is a great deal of goodwill, but there is not enough of it to solve our tremendous problems -- war, class war and economic breakdown. Later he said, Modern civilization can only be saved by a moral awakening. It can happen in Britain. It will happen if those who lead Britain learn to find in God their inspiration and direction. And Britain thus led would save the world." I have decided. There is the key. Eleven distinguished members of senior Oxford paved the way for Dr. Streeters decision, among them the Master of Balliol, the Master of University College, and others who later became heads of colleges. They stood for justice and fair day for this message. It captured a wave of men n Oxford. Oxford became a voice to the world of a revolutionary faitu. If was another great Oxford man, the late Marquis of Salisbury, who speaking in the House of Lords said, The cause of the worlds state is not economic. The cause is moral." He echoed Dr. Streeters conviction when he said, If I may use a phrase which is common in a great movement taking place at this moment in this country and personelsewhere, what we want are nationalities, to make alities, to make a new world. All other ideas of economic adjustment are too small really to touch the center of the evil." He, too, decided, and to his home invited this man to meet with the leaders of British life to see how they could unitedly give a moral and spiritual leadership to a world on the brink of collapse. Under the Hatfield trees he walked with friends old and new, among them Lord Lytton, who was later to say that that walk had left an indelible mark on his life. i In East London, in the cradle of the British was Labor movement, where Moral launched, there were also brave men who chose. There was Tod Sloan, Keir Hardies fellow fighter from the docks. He wrote, Chaos cannot obtain if we work, live and practice Moral It is a really laughing, living, loving obedient willingness to restore God to leadership. This to me is the only revolution that matters -- the change of human nature -- and it does happen. There was Ben Tillett, pioneer of the dockers unions across the world. From his death bed he sent this word, Tell Frank Buchman to go on fighting. You have a great international movement. Use It is the hope of tomorrow. It will bring sanity back to the world." The Earl of Athlone, who first met this mesof sage in 1929 when he was Governor-GenerSouth Africa, speaking in a radio broadcast to the British Commonwealth in the early days of the" has war, said : The call for Moral encircled the world, and become a source of fresh hope to millions of men and women. Heads of states, national, civic and industrial leaders of all classes, creeds and parties have welcomed it as the cure for that deep disease of the spirit from which civilization is suffering. stands for a change of Moral heart, for that new spirit which must animate all human relationships. It calls on us to make the will of God the guiding force, as for individuals, so for homes and nations." ' As the ideological struggle intensified across the world, a growing multitude caught the fire of these pioneers. For only men ablaze for the right j can ever hope today to win men who burn for the wrong. Fire from Heaven," that is how Don of Italy, described Moral Sturzo, patriot-priein a message sent to the world assembly on Mackinac Island. His thinking inspired the Christian Democrat parties of Italy, France and Germany, which have given three great Euro- - f irr countries. Thousands twenty-fou- r flocked to see the Japanese play, The Tiger, showing the answer to the Tokyo riots. Thousands more who could not get in saw films giving the answer to conflict of race, class and ideology. The President summoned this force to the capital, Brasilia. Led by General Bethlem, former Ambassador of Brazil in Pakistan and Bolivia, the man whose decision had brought them to his conti-pent; there came to meet the President a modern group of men and women ablaze with conviction. j) 1 1 - ceived today a delegation of Moral at his residence. He gave them a cordial welcome and said, T have followed the activities of Moral now for several years. I am convinced that the world as it is today cannot survive unless men stand for the ideals for which you are fighting. The disorder in the world social and political-- is due to the fact that men have stopped being concerned about spiritual and moral forces. I have listened with deep emotion to your convictions. I want to let you know that as far as I can I will do all that is possible so that we in Brazil will understand better the moral ' values of our civilization. ;f Responding to the invitation to come to the which opens conference for Moral in C&ux, Switzerland, on June 1st, Quadros said, 'I will send a personal representative. When he learned that the J apanese play, The Tiger', was available, he telephoned to the General in charge of his Military Household and said, Provide all that is needed to bring The Tiger to Brasilia. Instruct the Mayor to obtain the theater, provide transport in the city and, further, have the Air Force put at their disposal so that this work can be known in city after city through all the centers of Brazil." today-econo- . mic, ; COMMUNISM CONFRONTED i - General Bethlem, describing in the press the Impact of this force, writes, For the first time on thU continent Communism has been confronted with a positive alternative and for the first time it is being made to retreat I have found a real revolution ln.MRA. We Brazilians are being chal- -! lenged to give this to Communists, nists and anti --Communists alike. Many of us have been confused through our moral compromise I have found clarity through change. We need to wake up. The ideological war is already here. Which way Brazil goes, so goes Latin America. The situation is deadly senous. A former Minister of Foreign Affairs told me, Cuba has brought us to the brink of war. MRA may be the last hope. If The Minister Brazil gets it the world will get of War said, We will do everything we can to make Brazil the capital of the answer. .You have the winning Idea in MRA.' In the Catholic University of Sao Paulo where, it was stated, eighty percent of the students one professor-pries- t were said, Since gou have given your films and plays and held an assembly in our university, there have been no litlcal demonstrations. Moral is talked about everywhere.' A missionary monk, who had come down from North Brazil where the Communists are training small armies and guerilla bands in the hills, said, Brazil is just like Spain was before the Civil War. Can you fill my truck full of your literature so I can distribute it through all the cities up and down the Amazon T . non-Comm- u- it i pro-Castr- o, the six pagesn the conference edition of The Liberian Age printed the news of Moral ment, underlining the statement that Africa can be lost in the sinking sands of the materialism of ' East and West Leader? of Africa welcome Moral because it is the solid ground on fear-fregreed-fre- e continent . which a hate-freRe-Arin- a-. e, President Tubman shares the view of the Maharajah of Mysore, who said at a showing of The Crowning Experience, The only hope for mankind is to give no quarter to the powers of evil, internal or external. Human nature is so constituted that it cannot be taken for granted that good will automatically prevail over evil in an indolent or uninterested world. It is of the utmost importance that we carry on this ta?k of Moral with ceaseless vigilance. The armament of morality is invisible, but it is of matchless power, and its army includes, or should include, the whole of mankind. Let us all, both individuals and nations, enroll ourselves in this army." From Geneva, where the fate of great portions of the Asian and African continents is being discussed at the conferences on Laos and Algeria, a Swiss editor spoke over one of Europes most powerful radio stations, reaching millions on both of the Iron Curtain. He said, "Through all , sides the confusion caused by many different meeting places, press rooms, delegation headquarters and move the men and women of Moral who have come down from Caux, high above the lake of Geneva, and with a very compelling sense of dedication are making available to friend and foe alike their Whitsun message. This, too, speaks of overcoming difficulties in the meetings of politicians from East and West and I quote Robert Schumans word that ef Workers and military find unity in this ideology. Damasio Cardoso, militant dockers leader of Rio, told all his and their families, I pray to God that what happened in my family will happen to every family in the docks. We are either for God or against God. The choice for all of us is MRA or Communism. The Catholic priest in the docks, who before Cardosos change could not enter the quarter where six hundred dockers and their families lived, added, By their fruits ye shall know them. MRA is a tree. You can see its fruit. Moral has become a much more powerful weapon than any military weapons of Russia or North America. The most powerful weapon is absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. I want to declare here that in me MRA has a friend, admirer and fellow worker. ( That gifted artist j Louis Byles, f r ora J amaica, ninety miles from Cuba, speaks for many in Latin America and the Caribbean when he says, We have very little time left: He starred in that film. The Crowning Experience, as the man who plays the part of a convinced Communist captured by the fire of a superior ideology. He has just shown this film to the leadership of his island. Said one of the government officials, This is not a film. It is God. We must get this out immediately to Jamaica. It is exactly what we need. It will take brave men to free, unite and save the continent of Africa. Philip Vundla, who represents 600,000 Africans in Johannesburg and was a founder of the gold miners Union, says, There is great bitterness in our country. South Africa is being used to divide East from West on the basis of color, but the real issue i3 not color but character. It is not only the white men who have to change in South Africa. We have to change too. JVe need it, and I Wish everybody to know that. Vundla chose the ideology that brought unity and rejected division. His choice almost cost him his life at the hands of extremists, but his steadfastness has won him the respect of friend and foe alike. In Kenya, threatened again by bloodshed and chaos, the branch secretary of one African party faced the choice between two ideologies. He said, I had an airplane ticket to the Communist conference of African leaders. Instead I came to the Moral Assembly. I did not know there were such people committed to eradicate hate, fear and selfishness. Our leaders went to the other conference with a calabash filled with the waters of freedom. The Communists punctured it, and our freedom is pouring out MRA will seal the holes so true freedom can be maintained. I must bring the light of this answer to our country in darkness. fellow-worke- ' -- police-bodyguar- , it was only in Caux that he found encouragement and hope. The future of Asia may well be decided by which idea wins the Buddhist nations. Leaders from Japan, Laos, Cambodia, South Viet Nam, Thailand, Burma, Ceylon and India are convinced that Moral is the ideology with the answer. Buddhism has just been made the state religion of Burma. Five senior abbots from that country have come to plan at Caux for the mobilization of the Buddhist world in the Ideological struggle. These revered leaders were seen off at the Rangoon airport by a hundred monks and senior officials. They have just been received in Oxford by the heads of two colleges, by the Mayor of the city, and the President of the Union. They were shown the rooms in Christ Church, where this work had its beginnings fortjr years ' ago. rs . THE CROWNING EXPERIENCE . 1 are your debtors, . . This is the word of a man on his eighty-thlrbirthday who has spent a long life up ana down the world meeting and knowing men, who in 1915 paid the first of eight visits to Japan and was there the guest of those who laid the foundation of modern Japanese finance and industry, Baron Sakatani and Viscount Shibusawa, whose grandson, a minister of finance, his and even his are working with this force today. They come with former Prime Minister Kishi and other leading J apanese to Caux this summer to forge a unity of statesmanship among the free nations. They carry forward the work of which General Ho Ying-chiformer Prime Min- ister of China, says, More unity has been created between the nations of Asia at one Moral Re- Armament assembly in the Philippines than in ten years of post-wa- r diplomatic activity. . It is the word of a man who has known the personal friendship of Viceroys and Governors of India and of the men who opposed them, and brought them together: who knows the problems of Africa at first hand since 1929, and these statesmen of Europe and the Americas for more fifty years., He has seen the development of two materialist ideologies and the devastation of two world wars, the retreat of freedom, and now the advance of a mighty answer. We are facing world revolution. There are only three possibilities open to us. We can give in, and some are ready to do just that Or we can fight it out, and that means the risk of global suicide. Or we can find a superior ideology that shows the next step ahead for the Communist and the non- -; Communist world alike. What we shall never do effectively is to patch things up by pretending that basic differences do not exist or. do not matter; nor by supposing that an ideological challenge can be met by economic, political or military means alone. Absolute moral standards are not ust questions of individual conduct today.. Theyj are the conditions of national survival. We need to scour out the dirt in our national life, our political life, our economic life, our school life and our home life through a change in men. Wherever men give man the place in their lives that God alone should have, slavery has begun. Men must choose to be governed by God, or they condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants. There is no neutrality in the battle between good and evil. No nation can be saved on the cheap It will take the best of our lives and the flower f our nations to save humanity. If we go for cf great-grandso- n, n, ( i ; : ' n, all-o- . ' J Everyone in the country must see this film." He added, I will make every possible effort to meet Dr. Buchman in Caux this summer." Two out of -- of the nation have been published by hundreds of. dally and weekly newspapers across America as a public service. Contributions, which are and requests for Information, may be sent to Moral 640 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N, Cedar Point, Mackinac Island, Mich, York; 633 South Flower Street, Los Angeles 17, Calif pages calling for the Moral ent tax-deductib- le, j MORAL RE ARMAMENT, -- ut God we will win. We said President Tubman. Cl CONDITIONS OF SURVIVAL A woman former Mau Mau leader, detained for eight years, Baid, Here my hatred of the white man has ended. We women played a big part in leading our nation in the wrong direction. Now we must play the fullest part in rebuilding the country. Calling her children to stand beside her, she said to each in turn, Forgive me. I have been full of hate and have led you into hatred. ' Another former Mau Mau district secretary said, Bitterness has been the disease in our land. From my heart and home it spread like fire until there was bloodshed and chaos everywhere. God give us all new hearts to put right what is wrong in time." At the recent conference for heads of African states in Monrovia, great applause greeted the 8pecial showing of The Crowning Experience. e, built can be FOR GOD OR AGAINST GOD . The President heard from the grandson of Ma- -j hatma Gandhi, a former Man Mau fighter from Kenya, a former top Communist student leader from Kerala, an American educator whose expehad led him to give rience of Moral his life to Negro education in America, the son of an American Ambassador to Brazil and Peru, an Indian chieftain from Western Canada, a Nigerian nationalist, a member of the great Mitsui industrial family of Japan, a Frenchwoman who was a member of the central committee of the Socialist Party and leader of the three million Socialist women of France, and a British admiral, descendant of the Lord Cochrane who helped liberate i Chile, Brazil and Peru. news this Della The Corners Sen, carrying to Italy, wrotet President Janio Quadroa re- al ' These Pour weeks ago there arrived In Brazil, a focal of 150 from God-guid- st j target of the Kremlin for Latin America, a force ed it Comman-der-in-Chi- j LATIN AMERICAN OFFENSIVE . God-guid- . . ' -- The owner 0f a national newspaper said to me, Many of us have lost faith. We have regained it again through MRA. The president of the largest newspaper of Latin America said, MRA is not only an idea on the march. It is a force on the march. Our newspaper is at your disposal. Everyone must be reached with this idea. The inescapable choice for Latin America," concludes General Bethlem, is Moral or Communism. We will never succeed in this fight unless we change men. We are out to clean up the nation and the world. I have committed my whole life to this fight. General Carpentier of France, servant of his country in many campaigns and former of the Central European Ground Forces of NATO, who flew to Brazil to join this force, spoke to a vast audience in Rio de Janeiro. From the heart of the best men, he said, must come this tremendous wave of Moral which will win over Communism. In this ideological war we must confront Communism with another ideology-th- at ideology is MRA. It is because I am convinced of that that I am here to conduct a war. We need tactics, strategy and means. Some people think that strategy can come from a meeting of men who are responsible in the political field, but I do not believe jt. I have read in the newspapers for the last ten years accounts of men who meet in Washington, Paris and other great countries. But it is from all free men who fight for Moral that the answer will come. Y A REVOLUTIONARY FAITII ' .. e world-Br- im : Hen it is the Irate plan chooses, While the coward stands aside , Till, the multitude viakc virtue Of the faith tJiey had denied. .4 |