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Show Speaker Warns U. S. To Get Asia Loyalty NEW YORK Dr. Frank Lau-bach, Lau-bach, pioneer literacy expert, told , a dinner meeting of nearly 200 church and business leaders here that there will be "a dozen more Koreas" all over Asia unless the United States can win the loyalty of the masses of Asian people. The dinner, given in Dr. Lau-bach's Lau-bach's honor, was sponsored by the committee on world literacy and christian literature of the National Na-tional Council of Churches. Dr. Laubach, who recently returned re-turned from a seven-months' working tour of Asia, warned that "our everlasting advertisement of our terrible weapons is losing the cold war." "We are losing the masses of Asia and Africa," he said, "because "be-cause they read and hear only how ' we are using our money to make hydrogen bombs and jet fighters. This will not awe them into submission. sub-mission. It makes them hate us. It drives them toward the Communists." i Not military strength, but technical tech-nical skills and resources used in "compassionate service," can save Asia from becoming "an island is-land of freedom surrounded by a hostile sea of Communism," Dr. Laubach said. "The masses will welcome any nation that unselfishly unselfish-ly offers to help them and has the good sense not to drive shrewd bargains." Dr. Laubach recalled that he was in India during the Congressional Congress-ional debate over giving or selling two million tons of grains to India. "We saw the fury of the people as they read what some of our i foolish congressmen said against India and Nehru," he commented. J "What saved the situation was the fact that while congress tarried and waited and wrangled, the people peo-ple of the United States sent almost al-most as much foodstuff to India in shipload after shipload as con- gress finally decided to sell." |