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Show '3 r - 1 M E RICA N PE 0 P L E A' THE HOUR I mi ERE I ANSWER FOR GOD AKE. WAKE UP! TO THE " ", . ? P7TYO H a THE HOUR IS LATE ii sion within our borders are the forces through which Communism takes over. It is an ideological war. We are losing it because we are not fighting Republicans and Democrats it is the same. We move heedless and headless without an ideology against an ideological enemy. America is in danger of losing her life and the Free World its freedom. Guns, dollars and diplomacy alone are no match for an enemy who has all these but advances because of the super-arof an ideology. America needs an ideology. A change of policy Is not enough. Wa need a change of motives and character. A great cleansing ana uniting force for the nation. We judge ourselves by our ideals. Others judge us by the way we live. Unfaithfulness in the home, perversion in high places and low, decadence in the arts, lawless youth, class war, race war, dishonesty these are becoming the marks of American life. We are all responsible. These are no weapons with which to win the struggle for the hearts and minds of the millions of the world. And no USIA can make them so. The fact is that millions who would never join the Communist party make its advance inevitable by the way they live. Chancellor Adenauer of Germany said, Communism is a false ideology. But it is an ideology and can only be met with moral and spiritual weapons. We ade in an ideological battle. Therein lies the decisive task. It may last decades, but it must be won. A nation with an ideology is always on the offensive. A nation without an ideology is and dead. Because we do not live an Ideology we fail to recognize those who do. We were fooled by Mao . We were fooled by Castro. In our blindness we are led by those in our own press and government whose task it is to make Communists look like harmless reformers till they are safely in power. Our greatest Bin has been to cheat the world of the nation-savin- g truths upon which America was founded. Our destiny is to free the world of tyranny. Instead, we have cashed in our fighting faith for a soft materialism and retreated before the greatest tyranny the world has ever known. Men must choose to be governed by God or they condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants. In William Penns words lies Americas death sentence. Or her one hope. The hour is late. But not too late to turn to the answer. There is an answer. It is the moral ideology that rearms the living and thinking of men everywhere. It is Moral it THE CONGO SWITZERLAND Resident Tubman of Liberia, in Marph I960, speaking in the Executive Mansion to members of his Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps and other leaders of his country, said: All over the continent and across thp world An MRA force with its plays and film3 was welcomed in the Catholic monastery and convent schools of eastern Switzerland last autumn. His World Assembly at Caux, Switzer- America. A senior officer of the Ministry of Defense states, The news of what MRA did for the Army Is rolling like waves Into the Ministry, breaking on our desks.' JAPAN Following the riots last June, Prime Minister Kishi said, But lor Moral Japan Grace Dr. Bemardus Kaelin, Abbot Primate of the addressed the world Benedictine Order, 1947-5MRA World Assembly at Caux. He said, The can win all men ideology of Moral because its standards are universally valid. It is not a religion, nor a substitute for a religion. It is not a sect. It has four mighty pillars absolute on which honesty, purity, unselfishness and love human living must be based. It is a new way designed to forestall a false ideology. May it win 9, the world. commander-in-chie General Henri Guisan, of the Swiss Army, gave this message to his people in the foreword to the MRA handbook. which went to every Ideology and home in Switzerland and to 87,000,000 homes throughout the Free World: Ideological neutrality can be dangerous, for refusal to fight for what is right plays the enemy's game. We must not allow these military virtues to be killed in us by greed fqr profits and an easy life. I long that our whole people should face realistically the forces which confront us today. ist MRA-inspire- . ef war-tim- forces won a significant victory in the state of Kerala which for two years had been under Communist control. Mannath Padmanabhan, leader of the liberation struggle, publicly called this an d victory. Writing m the New York January 3, 1961, he said: 'The 15,000,000 people in Kerala Hindu, Christian and Muslim stand together with Moral .to turn the tide of Communism in Asia Journal-America- land, last summer. This play will shortly visit h WEST AFRICA In the elections of February 1960 the GERMANY Comm- coalition gained one million more votes. If this trend continues in the national elections this spring, the country could have a Communist government. Equipped with plays and films, a Moral force is now in Italy to turn the tide. They were invited by Italian leaders including Prince and Princess Castelbarco Albani, whose family gave a Pope to the Chilrch) and Signora Maria Dosios leader of the rice workers of Italy, and a Marxist until she returned to her Catholic faith after meeting Moral The plays went first to Milan, heart of industrial Italy and to Sesto San Giovanni where 80 vote Communist. After one performance a Communist said: Unless we get this answer there will be a blood-batin Italy by spring. This is our one hope, INDIA Throughout 1960 the ideological force of Moral has been at work in crisis points across the world. r In the recent municipal elections, the God-center- ed nt FOR GODS SAKE, unist-led an ideology is rapidly fostering the secret of unity, creating incorruptible leadership and giving direction to nations that have missed their way. I invite the leaders and people of Africa to join in this supreme task and to give priority to the moral of our nations. Moral is the ideology of freedom. It i3 the ideology which Africa needs today. HERE IS THE ANSWER ... d ITALY - TW-tung- Another play, The Tiger, was written and acted by Japanese university students, veterans of the Tokyo riots who had found an answer at the Moral turn-aroun- Congolese leaders invited an MRA force to their nation six weeks before independence. The force included black and white from South Africa, former Mau Mau leaders and white settlers from Kenya, as well as Americans and Europeans. President Kasavubu told them, You have found the secret of liberation IS Africa. All men must think how to give this pjoral fegsis to the country. At the height of th$ emergency his government asked them to hrpgdcast twice daily on the national radio on the theme, An Answer to Crisis. These broadcasts are still continuing. Commanders of UN contingents from 13 nations requested showings of the MRA films and ideological training fot their troops. During the past year 140 Congolese lenders "have attended Moral Assemblies in America and Switzerland. We would have known a more terrible catastrophe but for the films and action of Moral in our country, said Jean Bolikango, Minister of Information and National Defense. we have seen the Through Moral way to Bave our country from Communism and set her on a new road. self-satisfi- ed before being won to the ideology of Moral under-developme- - m editorial said, A vivid dramatization of the struggle of free people everywhere to roll back the advance of Communism. Of Muriel Smith, the drama critic wrote, She quite possibly sang and acted her way into an Oscar nomination. . The South African National Board of Censors has unanimously passed The Crowning Experience for unlimited distribution. In the prologue of the film, Joel McCrea, one of Hollywoods most distinguished stars, says, The future of the world depends on millions making the right choice. Many do not know the real America. But The Crowning Experience is the kind of picture the world is waiting to see, because it portrays the true America to which the whole world can and will respond. To produce further such films, Moral has completed a television film studio on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Broadcasting describes it as One of the most complete television plants in to put free nations on the offensive the nation in the world-wid- e battle against Communism. Ravines, former Communist and delegate to the Comintern, founder of the Communist Party in Peru, says: The basic problems of Latin America are not but corruption and Communism. While our countries welcome economic aid, alone it cannot touch the root problem. Without a moral ideology, it may even aggravate the problem. The best export the United States of America or any nation can send to Latin America is Moral Army officers from Argentina and Peru, dockers from Brazil, cabinet ministers and coffee workers, industrialists and student leaders have been among the many hundreds of Latin American delegates to Assemblies at Mackinac the Moral Island, Michigan, and Caux, Switzerland. In the port of Rio de Janeiro where strikes and lawlessness had created what the papers called a reign of terror, dockers trained in Moral brought a revolutionary answer. They united the rival unions, they fought corruption, they drastitime of ships, they cally reduced the held the first democratic election in the history of the port, defeating the Communist candidates. Now they have told the story in a film, Men of Brazil, which is speaking to the world. would be under Communist control today. This month he writes, Our greatest need now is to go on the offensive and make the ideology of Moral the policy of our government apd of our people. Only then can Japan survive the testing years ahead and play her part in saving Asia from tyranny. Our experience last summer shews that you cannot answer ideological gtack without an ideology. At the crucial hpur men in Jabpr, youth and politics, trained in Moral stood . up and refused to compromise with evil. Earlier Gabriel Marcel, eminent French Catholic philosopher, commenting on the development of this force in Japan, wrote, In Tokyo a few months ago I saw the importance of all that is being achieved. It creates a striking contrast with the sterile talk among professional politicians who seem too often not to grasp the magnitude of what is at stake. America is at war. A war we are losing. We are under attack by Godless Communism on a world front and Godless materialism on the home front Selfishness, perversion and divi- On December 10, 1960, Bonn newspapers announced Chancellor Adenauers launching of an in the ideological offensive for Moral German Federal Republic. The newspaper, Wsstdeutsch AUgemeine wrote: At last we go on the offensive. Moral rives democracy the moral backbone it lacks today. 120,000 people. Including 17,000 officers and men of the German NATO force, have seen the film in recent weeks. and plays of Moral One of these plays, Hoffnung (Hope), was produced and performed by coal miners from the German Ruhr, many of them leading Communists i n, and the worlds In the face of .the constant threat from Red Chinese troops across the northern border, patriotic Indians have just concluded a National Assembly for Moral to launch an action adequate to turn back Communism in the country. FREE CHINA AMERICA In 1960 America produced a supreme weapon in the war of ideas the MRA picture in Technicolor, The Crowning Experience . It poses the choice or to all men everywhere of Moral Communism. The story was inspired by the life of the great educator Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, bom of slave parents, who rose to be adviser to Presidents. Stars of the film are Muriel Smith, Broadways original Carmen Jones, and Ann Buckles of the New York cast of Game. Fajama The Crowning Experience had its world premiere on Broadway last October. Stars from Hollywood, 300 UN delegates representing 73 countries, and leaders from every walk of New York life were among the distinguished audience who packed the k In the spring of 1960 theNational Assembly unanimously voted to give every assistance to the in Free China' advancement of Moral to 6end regular and invited Moral task forces to assist and advise us. It further requested that every year Chinese delegations should take part in MRA Assemblies. The first trainees are now at Caux, Switzerland. wartime premier and General Ho Ying-chicommander-in-chie- f of the Chinese armies, said, If we would never we had had Moral have lost the mainland. Only with Moral can we recapture the mainland from Communism. Ten-nessee-b- n, theater. In its Academy Award qualifying run in Hollywood The Crowning Experience premiere drew the audience for many seasons. greatest In a front page story The Hollywood Reporter feta ted that the film topped the weeks box office business in Los Angeles. The Lot Angeles Herald and Express in an star-studd- LATIN AMERICA At a time when printing bouses, radio stations and TV channels in Cuba are turning out Communist propaganda for the hemisphere, Eudodo ed WAKE UP! The evidence is Inescapable. We need now to act. When will America begin to fight the ideological war and make Moral her national policy? Washington, clean, straight and would be an invincible force leading mankind to its God-directe- d, destmy. The urgent need Is for patriots Democrat and Republican, labor and management, black and who will put right what is white, young and old wrong in their own lives and in the life of the nation. Such men will take on the task of arming America with her true ideology. It means absolute standards of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, applied drastically, per- sonally and nationally. It means men accepting the guidance of God. Definite, accurate, adequate information can come from the mind of God to the minds of men. It comes to those who listen and obey. It is the new dimension of statesmanship. Dr. Frank Buchman, bom in Pennsylvania, initiator of Moral has done what no other American has done. He has not only seen the need for an ideology but has given a lifetime to raise up a world force of men and women trained and committed to fight and win the ideological war. The governments of France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Free China, the Philippines, Thailand apd Iran have decorated him with their nations highest honors. In recent months leaders from 16 African nations have urged him to come to their countries before it is too late. In America 97 Senators and Congressmen said in a message to him, You are giving a uniting idea to nations which can turn the ideological tide in the world today. Speaking to a World Assembly for the Moral of the Nations at Mackinac Island, Michigan, Dr. Buchman said: My deep personal wish is to have every American free under the direction of God to fight for America; so to fight that America really be free, free from the tyranny of sin, under Gods direction, the unseen but Power. I wish this no less deeply for everyone in every nation. I dont want our sons, especially our fighting sons, to go about without an answer. It simply enslaves them. It is not good enough. It will drive them to the same philosophy that rules our opponents. We shall never create an inspired democracy that way. Men must learn to have a faith that will create the right revolution. If we can spread this revolution fast enough we can save America and the world. Unless we have this revolution there will be a revolution of chaos. It needs this stronger dose. Sin leaves us with such a dull, heavy thud. The blood of Jesus Christ His Son deansetb us from all sin.' That is the dis-- . covery everyone is looking for. That is the answer. Then you will have a wonderful example that the whole world will want to follow. You will have an America to which the wise and honest can repair. And that is what the world expects today of America. Yon will have a battlecry of freedom, and that Is what America wants. You will have a democracy thatris really inspired. Then our young men and our old men will fight as Lincoln fought of old. Our young men will know what to fight for and our wars wUl be won. And we Bhall be at peace with all men and the whole world. The hour Is late. Here Is the answer. For Gods sake, wake upl ever-prese- nt is financed by tne sacrificial gifts of men ana women from aU walks of life, aetermmed to bring this answer to" America and the world. Contributions, which are tax deductible, and requests for information, may be sent to Moral 640 Fifth Avenue, New York 1 9; 833 South Flower Street, Los Angeles 1 7; Cedar Point, Mackinac Island, Michigan Thu page, Hie all the action of Moral MORAL . . RE-ARMAME- NT . :1 ' |