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Show E t Moral has done a gi stabilize our recent election campaign. 0 deal to V- - By contrast, white officials prevented the showing of the him Freedom in Zanzibar, and at the sub-sequent elections violence broke out and sixty people were killed. T oday the island is in danger of becoming the Cuba of Africa. An effort was made one year before Kenyas Independence to increase the force in that country. The Kenyans of Moral invited and desired it. It was blocked by the bigotry and blindness of a few petty European officials. ' v Freedom was prevented by European author ities from being shown in Uganda for three years, in spite of the personal plea by African leaders that it be made available to their people. Requests for it to be shown to African contingents of the armed V forces in East Africa were rejected. Yet it is the subversion of some African soldiers that has threat ened the whole design of freedom for East Africa, f ; when they could have been the moral as well as the X" military strength of their countries. . Britains military help is being urgently Is not this the moment for America ana sought. to learn from the past and, in addition, offer them the revolution of character which alone can secure order and freedom? Now continent towards the rocks of violence, disintegration and black or red dictatorship. America must accept its responsibility for the retreat of freedom in Africa. Our policy has been sterile. It has gone no further than dollar aid or panic reaction to situations set up by the foes of freedom. And we have failed to supply the moral steel without which freedom is subverted and lost. m al A seemingly incredible ineptitude has blinded us to thetoBffifinlst penetration of Africa. A Reuters dispatch February 6 said Pekings Jenmin Jih Poo , the Chinese s African tour as a Communist Party newspaper, hailed Premier Chou in in era success1 new the a development of Communist spectacular ushering African states. with and Chinas friendship cooperation En-lai- -- On the same day the Christian Science Monitors Washington correspondent reported: One government policymaker even admits the Chou adventure analysis fell between the cracks in the State Department No one felt he was responsible to counteract his (Chous) tour. The former U. S. Ambassador to Switzerland, Henry J. Taylor, wrote in the Los Angeles Times, February 7: Famous Arab expert Wendell Phillips, author explorer, told Washington officials the Red score in Zanzibar months ago. He g knew the plans and also spelled out in detail what would happen in Tanganyika and elsewhere in East Africa . . , The incredible pattern of misinformation and surprises, and the endless denials of the undeniable would be utterly impossible unless the Soviet had infiltrated our government, as proven in numerous other Western countries. Castro-Sico-Sovi- et i island-hoppin- Hindsight is the melancholy gift of history to the shortsighted. colonial policies of the Recent events have shown up the weaknesses in post-wWest. It is true that no other empire has triumphed over all her enemies, as did Great Britain, and, after that triumph, handed back freedom to nation after nation, because she thought it was the right thing to do. But it is one thing to give nations their freedom. It is another thing to establish in them the quality of character and Ideology that preserves and guarantees that freedom. ar When Africans warned that after the British moved out the Communists would be sure to try to move in to fill the vacuum of power and prestige, and that a moral ideology should be established before the authority of military might was withdrawn, they woe often ignored and their plans frustrated by the white authorities. In Kenya, before Independence, Jomo Kenyatta, the present Prime Minister, asked for the MRA African film Freedom to be shown to his people. It is a film, made in Africa by Africans, which shows how lasting freedom must be based on a revolution of character which is the only answer to a revolution of bloodshed. For months the showing of this film was blocked by the white authorities. Finally the demand for it from Africans in Kenya, vigorously supported by certain newspapers, prevailed. It has been shown in Swahili and in English to of a million Kenyans. Many of them attribute to this the fact that the elections three-quarte- Is paid for advance of Moral by hundreds of mon and woman who giva from conviction and sacrifice. Atony contribute regularly If you wish to have a part, ploasa fill in the coupon worU-wB- e Negro said recently, A civil rights bill will be ' passed by Congress. Legally my people are going to be given equality in the United States eventually in South Africa, perhaps everywhere. But no laws can make men like myself trust a white man. I hate them. It is in my bones. He met white men who had changed. He met black men who had changed. Heimself changed. He said that the power of Christ could end hatred in human hearts and bring answers that no politics and no laws, necessary as they are, csn accomplish. He realized the truth that now face honest Communists and do not wealth and welfare thAt ehvironment, education, legislation, fogether, by themselves create the new type of man without whom humanity may destroy itself. God can and w ill if we let Him. Events are moving at a colossal speed. The choice for Africa is the moral of the continent or Communist take-over. or world war, ft) For the Communist world the choice is moral to free men assuredly will never allow red imperialism triumph on the earth. , world Is to Today the challenge to the Communist and the take up the supreme revolutionary task of this era: to remake the whole world and take humanity into the next great step of evolution. ist We can decide to turn the tide of history before the tide of history sweeps 0 into the forgotten depths of its fathomless oceans. We read that men cannot live by bread alone. A house built on sand cannot last A civilization built on dirt cannot endure. If men believe we can last for long solely pursuing wealth, sex, comfort, dreading atomic desolation, in a climate which seeks to prove that evil is good, good evil, then men are mad. Those who concentrate on the purse and belly of the national economy but neglect the idea in the head and the answer in the heart, the soul and the spirit of nations, do so at their periL is a plumb line through the heart of modern man. Moral It is a test by which individuals and society pass judgment on themselves. Its Christian standards of absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness and lovo remain the challenge and the charter for the conscience of mankind. They embody the decencies of life which the common man everywhere instinctively wants and knows to be right the common man. We believe that as the crisis of our times grows more acute and clear, he will accept the challenge, he will be willing to pay the price of change, he will understand that there is nobody more reactionary, than the person who wants to see the whether Communist or world different but refuses to become different himself. We have faith in st, T"J I To: MORAL ! 112 East 40th Street, New York, N. Y. 1001 6 rs were carried through without bloodshed. The news magazine Reporter, published .in Nairobi, commented on the large following of MRA in Kenya and said, Tho "S A Intimidated by fear of world opinion, we have engaged in a systematic campaign to drive our allies we out of Africa. In the name of Britain leave and to the Congo, pressured Belgium to give up Zanzibar, long before these countries were We are pushing an ready for self-rulin United the Nations that may win votes now policy but imperil liberty later. anti-coloni- ' Some nation which is supremely equipped by '"Ajj tradition and history has got to rise and answer the , j challenge of history, and say to the listening earth, In our society we have answered the divisions that will destroy humanity. We have learned to live like sons and daughters of God, because we are guided by the living God. Our homes are united, our fam dies are united, our men are faithful, our women are pure, our industries are honorable, labor and manage ment both serve the community, both put people before profits, wages or hours. It fa one thing to announce the winds of change are blowing. It is another to allow them to bustle white colonialism out of a continent and blow that e. . i I y 1, Please send me further Information.,,,,,,. 2 I enclose a contribution of,,,,,,, Name (capitals) Mr. Mrs Mist. ent j Address I City , f ,. .State. . V y |