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Show THE AMERICAN P E OP L E TO KNOW NOT WHAT COURSE others A may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry said that. As men of courage chose to stand, a free nation was bom. T quit whiskey and poker and a lot ot other things I shouldnt have been doing. Its made me honest and decent and given me a happy home. Its made Vice-Preside- nt Today the life of nations is breaking down. Riot and rebellion, hell and holocaust are in our midst. An ideology born in frustration and hatred challenges the world. A period of danger unparalleled in human history confronts us. America must stand and give the answer. There is an answer. It lies in Americans accepting the challenge to live by absolute moral standards and the guidance of God. An extreme of evil can only be met by an extreme of good. A fanatical following of evil by a passionate pursuit of good. William Penn put it straight: Men must choose to be governed by God or they condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants. We cannot live crooked and think straight. We cannot keep our mistresses, our dishonest deeds, our comforts and still keep our liberty. Out is Communisms greatest asset, Chou immorality En-lof Red China says: We can slip our Communist ideology in through the weak spots in mens characters. Lip service to the faith of our fathers cannot counter an devotion to an evil ideology. Human brilliance that does not obey the guidance of God cannot answer human brilliance dedicated to destroy God. Abraham Lincoln knew the secret of He wrote, If it were not for my firm belief g in an Providence, it would be difficult for me in the midst of such complications of affairs to keep my reason in its seat. I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not to do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it. This is the missing factor in the planning and the statesmanship of the world today a ai all-o- ut God-contr- over-rulin- God-center- ed ideology for democracy. offers America and the Moral whole world the superior armament of an ideology without which armies are and statesmen Americas great, immediate, positive task is to live and give MoraCRe-Armameto the world. Then empty hands will be filled with work, empty stomachs with food, and empty hearts with an idea that really satisfies. Robert Schuman, as Foreign Minister of Trance, in his foreword to the collected speeches of Dr. Frank Buchman, Remaking the World, wrote: Moral brings us a philosophy of life applied in action. It is the beginning of a vast transformation of human society which has already begun. It is not a question of a change of policy; it is a question of changing men. Democracy and her freedoms can be saved only by the quality of the men who speak in her name. A vast transformation of human society. Millions are turning That is Moral to it, leaders and led in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Across the free world an army of men and women is growing, united in their commitment to live under Gods direction. They present fcn impregnable barrier to evil men and evil ideas and give a sure hope to despairing millions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. As men choose and change, they turn the out-foug- ht out-thoug- nt course of history. A STEELWORKERS LEADER The roughest toughest man in the Steelhe could lick any six men, was a colof John Riffe, who rose to be description leagues of the CIO. the last Executive Bom in the Kentucky mountains in 1906 the son of a poor farmer, Riffe became a coal miner at 14. Years of poverty and persecution convinced him that the employer was the mortal enemy of the workers. Beaten up and left for dead by goons in South Carolina, he recovered to become "one of the workers Vice-Preside- nt five giants of American labor. But his biggest fight was the battle for the thinking of America. The Communists offered class war. They were out to foment division in industry. Riffe gave the workers a much greater challenge: Labor led by God can lead the world. He was a friend of Philip Murray, President of the Steelworkers, who recognized in a call to action against the Moral divisive materialism which is our unseen enemy. Philip Murray once said to Riffe, John, we will never have a sound union in the mills unless we have union in the homes. When John Riffe met Frank Buchman he found ,' an answer for hie own life and home, fot labor and for d men cannot build America. He saw that selfish men an unselfish nor a hate-fre- e society, society. He saw changed men change other men and bring rnspned answers to 'Unemployment, deadlock find selfish Sntweak John chose this ideology. He changed, and set a pattern for the age. Of course he met opposition. They tried to smear him. But he stood firm. Speaking to the Executive of the CIO in 1953, he said, You men know me. You have seen me sitting around all night in poker games, and then turning up next morning when I should have been backing Up bleary-eye- d Fhil Murray. MRA has made a union man like me God-fearin- hate-fille- - ' g me do my job with greater responsibility. After this statement John Riffe was elected by acclamation to the post of Executive which he held till the AFL-CImerger in 1955. MRA is answering Communism by changing Communists, said Riffe. He was speaking from experience. One day the leader of an union asked him for a talk. He found he could trust John. He got honest about drinking and trouble in the home. Then he told John, I am but I am still publicized as an secretly in the Party. What should I do? Riffe told him about his own change and how in quiet thought God can show a man what to do. The local leader decided to get honest with his wife, quit the drinking and tell his colleagues about his Communist affiliation. Today this man, no longer Communist, says, i3 the way up and the way Moral out for humanity. Riffe knew that the revolution which had happened in his own life could take place equally in men of management. It can begin at the bottom and go up, or it can begin at the top and go down, he said. The important thing is that it begins. Years later, from his deathbed John Riffe told a United States Senator, You must tell America that when Frank Buchman changed John Riffe ho saved the country 500 million dollars. When he died the leaders of six million Japanese workers said of him, In John Riffe we have seen the new America. O AMERICAN SURGEON IN THE CONGO A group of Africans were talking animatedly in a train near Johannesburg. They were speaking about an American surgeon who had stayed on in force after the Congo with a Moral the outbreak of the crisis and won the trust of the Congolese and their leaders. The American is Dr. William T. Close of Greenwich, Connecticut, formerly the chief resident surgeon at Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Prime Minister Ueo said to him and the force of Moral My wish is that you stay long enough in this country. If not, Communism will come in when you go oat. The MRA force has been in the Congo since May 1960 at the invitation of the Congolese, hungry for an answer to civil war and Communist takeover. Dr. Close has no economic aid or military assistance to offer but he has a militant commitment to an ideology so powerful that he wins and alike. changes Communist and When the trouble broke out and the Europeans fled, Dr. Close offered his services without pay in East Leopoldville Hospital. the 1800-be- d The hospital was threatened by a strike. One morning Close Was operating on a Congolese soldier. His Congolese medical assistant was a ringleader of the strike, a bitter man. The atmosphere was tense. Close paused for a moment, turned to the technician and said, I was thinking of you early this morning. The technician was on his guard. The doctor continued, It is the arrogance and superiority in white men like me that have created the bitterness in men like you. I am really sorry. There 'Was a long silence. I have never heard a white man admit he was wrong, said the Congolese. Close won the technician ana brought a new spirit to the hospital. Dr. Close works 14 to 18 hours a day. He fights for the Congolese leaders to deal as drastically with the evils In their nation as a doctor does with his patients; he shows the MRA ideological films to the UN and Congolese troops or speaks over the national tadio bn the MRA program, The Answer to Crisis, 'Which is broadcast twice dally. One day a Congolese leader was secretly offered a high position in a new government. It was a clever trick to divide the democratic forces. At dinner that night Dr. Close told this man how he had changed and put things right with his wife and his boss at the New York hospital. The Congolese leader, moved by Closes honesty, admitted his ambition 'Was being used to split the government. He decided to refuse the offer and exposed the whole plot to the acting Prime Minister. Dr. Close Nvrites from the Congo, The Congo does not 'Want Communism. America must not choose to Compromise with the Communists. She must be Mind to her twn danger if she follows a line that w3l force Communism on to another country. In the words of an African leader, Moral is doing for Africa what Abraham Lincoln did for America. It is binding Up Hie nations wmds and setting the people free. Either we Americans accept to fight the moral battle in our own country and give a moral ideology to other nations, or we condemn Africa and the world to a bloody Holocaust. FRENCH RESISTANCE FIGHTER We forgive! We forgive! The wounded Congolese soldiers shouted from their beds to the woman who had just spoken to them in the iMinnMvilla VincnUol woiA fis w--- d French woman who had taken on her heart to apologize to these Africans for all that Europeans had done to their country and Continent. She asked their forgiveness and this was the reply. During the war Irene Laure was k leading figure of the French Resistance. She hid fugitives. She diverted trains. When the occupying forces cut down the food grey-ha- ii in Marseilles no that children went hungry, she mobilized 4,000 women and marched them in silence like avenging angels through the streets Until the rations were restored. Her son was tortured to force her to disclose secrets of the Resistance. She refused. But her heart broke and hate took its place. I had only one to destroy all Germans, she said. wish After the war the people of Marseilles elected her overwhelmingly to the National Assembly. She of the three and a half became Secretary-Genermillion Socialist women of France. World She came to the Moral Assembly at Caux, Switzerland. The first people 6he heard speak from the platform there here Germans. She wanted to leave but in spite cf herself, she listened. These were Germans with an ideology. They honestly faced the mistakes of the past. Humbly they declared their own nations need for change. For days she wrestled with it in her spirit. Then she made her choice. She mounted the platform and in brief sentences she, who had been $6 wronged, asked forgiveness of the Germans for her hatred. Barriers of years melted. Irenes husband Victor 47 years a Marxist, trained by Marcel Cachin, dean of French Communists returned to the Catholic Church of his fathers, which for nearly half a century he had attacked. Together the Laures, grandparents now, were married in church which at the time of their civil marriage they had refused to do. They decided to go to Germany and begin to cure the division between the two countries. They spoke to ten out of the eleven West Gunman parliaments. Over the radio and in hundreds of meetings and interviews they healed the hatred which they had once shared. Chancellor Adenauer of Germany has said of Madame Laure that she has done more than any other living individual to bring reconciliation between France and Germany. Unless the work of Moral is carried forward, he says, peace in the world cannot be maintained. al JAPANESE STUDENT RIOTERS An audience of 3,000 rose in a sustained standing ovation last night to the challenge of a force of Japanese students in Carnegie Hall, wrote the n New York on February 21. The students had taken part in the Tokyo riots last June which prevented President Eisenhowers visit to Japan. They had just given the premiere performance of their play The Tiger, a drama of the Tokyo riots. The New York Times, February 24, reported what happened after the performance of The Tiger at White Plains, New York: Four Japanese students apologized to James C. Hagerty tonight for the Tokyo riots against him last June. Mr. Hagerty was President Eisenhowers press secretary. He replied to the apologies, delivered on stage, that the drama and its message was all the apology I or the people of the United States could want It was a moment of history, uniting Japan and America. This is democracy in action, demonstrated said Edwin Michaelian, by Moral Chief Executive of Westchester County. The dramatic change in these students took World Assembly place at the Moral fet Caux, Switzerland, last summer. There they found an idea more satisfying and challenging than riots and rebellion. Thev had given their passion to destroy the alliance between Japan and America. Now they decided to live to save a Crumbling civilization. Shoei Omote, former President of the students of Meiji University, says, I fought as a leader of the riots because 1 felt that Communism alone 'could answer the corruption of Japan. But the Larder we fought, the more bitterness there was in the country. Through another 'student leader I heard about MRA. I saw that as I art so is my nation. I put right what Was wrong in rfiy life ana family and got completely honest. The choice is or Communism. Moral Chancellor Adenauer invited the Tiger to Germany and officially sponsored the showings. Trench leaders including former Pripie Minister Robert Schuman, Gaston Monnerville, President of the French Senate, and Gabriel Marcel, the Catholic philosopher, invited them to Paris. Now they will take their play across America. Through the press, radio and television these students have reached millions. Their ' fight is answering the Communist strategy of mobilizing for rebellion the youth of all nations. Former Prime Minister Kishi of Japan refers to men like these when he says, But for Moral Japan would be under Communist control todav. Journal-America- well-kno- AFRICAN REVOLUTIONARY The Communist aim in South Africa is to produce a bloodbath by inflaming the hate between black and white. But a mighty answer is at work. P. Q. Vundla is a great African revolutionary. He led the biggest strike of the' African gold The police called him the most dangerous man in South Africa. He could set 12,000 men marching in less than two hours. Vundla changed. The man who helped him change was Nico Ferreira, an Afrikaner who had led the white nationalist Youth League at Pretoria University. Ferreira accepted the challenge of Moral He went to Vundla and said, I am sorry for the pride and domination in people like me and for the pain and suffering we have caused. He told Vundla of his decision to lay down his life to bring South Africa under Gods control. In men like Ferreira, Vundla saw a revolution far more dynamic than his own struggle. Here was an ideology that changed men of all races. When Vundla committed his life to fight for this Uniting answer he drew the enmity of some of his own people who were determined not to give up the race war. He was stabbed and left for dead. When be 'came out Hie hospital be called a mass of his meeting people, told them of his decision to be a selfless, incorruptible man, and to fight without hatred, and won them. Today he ha6 his peoples Support 'more than ever before. They have just elected him to represent 6(10,000 Africans in Johannesburg for talks with the Minister of Native Affairs. Men like Vundla and Ferreira, black and white, hate-freate building the new South Africa 27 assemgreed-freheld have already They blies Where all races have met to plan an answer for the country. Because of their commitment unprecedented events are now taking place. By unanimous decision the South African Film Censor Board passed the film The Crowning Experience, which stars the distinguished Negro artist Muriel Smith, for release to all races. When the film had its Cape Town premiere this month the run had to be extended because of exceptional crowds. The South African Broadcasting Corporation in a historic step has requested Vundla to speak on the national commercial radio. Nothing less than an ideology with a strategy could have united men like Ferreira and myself, says Vundla. It is our only hope. My one job is to change men. Dr. Buchman sent a message to a friend telling him of Vundla. He said, This is a man in possession of fundamental truth. This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling that is in Christ Jesus. Make this reality in the ' life of a man and he will carry it to the nation. Make it a reality in the life of America, and Russia and China will respond and the course of history will be changed. mine-worker- e, s. fear-fre- e, e. tvorhl-remakin- g THE DECISION LIES IN YOUR HANDS Riffe, Close, Vundla, Irene Laure, the men ol The Tiger these are in the vanguard of the fight to save a crumbling civilization. Anyone who reads this page can immediately take his or her place in the same front line. Frank Buchman puts it this way: Now make no mistake. I do not say that this message will be wholly popular. It stirs the conscience. That is uncomfortable. It will always be open to misinterpretation by those who wish to escape it. But it comes as illumination to those 'who are ready. Let me tell how it came to me. Just forty years ago I was divided. Just as nations today are divided. Materialism was winning its battle in my heart. I went to Europe to try to escape. But my battle came with me. One day, in England, God showed me the cost of my pride and my materialism. I admitted it. That is the first step. Get honest. first to God, then to those I said, Sorry I had wronged. That is the second step. I learned to listen to God. I accepted His commission to bring an answer to men and nations. That is the third step. God is calling men everywhere to be the instruments of union. It comes not by conferences, not by laws, not by resolutions and pious hopes, but by change. Change is the heart of the superior ideology. As individuals change, a new climate comes to the nations life. As leaders change, policies become flows again. As d inspired and the nations statesmen change, the feat of var and chaos 111 lift. The most difficult will respond to the firm, united but humble voice of reborn democracy. Why should there be catastrophe again when, with God, renaissance is inevitable? This is the new pattern of freedom for all nations. Shall it be a new Dark Age for the world? Renaissance of the moral Or shall it be world-wid- e and spiritual forces everywhere, bursting into life and bringing at the last moment a miracle to mankind? Which shall it be? The decision lies in your hands. i The Call to the American People, "The Hour is Late , has been printed free of charge by over 200 daily and weekly newspapers across America as a public service. There hat been a great national response. Thousands wrote letters from every comer of the country. They responded wholeheartedly to the straight challenge of ike page and made financial contributions to further the advance. 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