Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 28]

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nig gegend wrote the foreword to the Swiss edition. In it he said, ~On the ideological plane neutrality. can be dangerous, for refusal
to fight for what is right pl plays the enemy~s game. The
training center at Caux is a unique instrument that has
changed the conduct of nations. I long that our whole, people should face realistically the forces which con- front each other today, that we draw from our traditions a relentless determination to safeguard at all costs
the freedom we inherit.~

This was the last public etatement General Guisan
made. When he died 300,0% citizens ~of Switzerland
stood in silent tribute to the man who was regarded as
the savior of his nation. His widow wrote to me, ~General Guisan was gripped by the idea and the might of
Moral Re-Armament. In the evening of his life it was
a great girder of support to him.~

Mighty Wind of Hope

Moral Re-Armament is a hurricane of common sense
sweeping irresistibly through the hearts of nations. It
is smashing down the barriers between nations and
races, dispersing the fogs of hate that threaten humanity
and bringing a mighty wind of hope to the millions of
the earth.

Hoffnung~Hope~is the name of the play God put
in the mind of a miner from the Ruhr. He is a worker
at the coalface. He had never thought of writing a play.
He changed. He found.an answer to division in his
home, his nation and the World. Chancellor Adenauer
heard of this play and sent for this Ruhr miner and his
friends. He asked them to go to Britain and France to
prepare the way for his own visits to those countries.
Prd of us Germans,~ he said, ~do not realzie how

pros the wounds in. other countries which were
~ gaused what" we did through having the wfong idelogy.~ ~In an exclusive article in the New York JournalAmerican headlined ~Adenauer calls MRA World's
Hope,~ the Chancellor said, ~A nation with an ideology
is always on the offensive. A _ without an ideology
is self-satisfied and dead.~

In Britain, Hoffnung was like a hurricane. It shifted
the prejudices. of years. In the spirit of Moral ReArmament men like James Coltart, executive of the
British press and television, took inspired and fearless
action to prepare for Chancellor Adenauer~s visit. His
time in Britain was hailed as a triumph. Back in Bonn

~the Chancellor at a meeting of the Christian Democratic
Party referred to the mistrust between Britain and
Germany which had. been swept aside, and said, ~We
have to thank Moral Re-Armament for that.~:

In Paris, French audiences stood and cheered. Some
were in tears as the German miners sang the Marsiellaise in French.

There is a shrine at Mont Valérien where during the.
oceupation 4,500 Frenchmen of the Resistance met
their death. To Mont Valérien went those Ruhr miners.
They were escorted by the wife of the General at the
head of: the French nation~s defenses, and the niece
of President de Gaulle. They were the first Germans to
go there in fifteen years. They gave news of an idea

powerful enough to unite nations separated by genefa- -

tions of Hate. They expressed. their sorrow for the past
and their resolve to lay down their lives to rebuild
Europe and the world. The columns of Figaro gave the
news of this event tothe French nation.

~-Waterland, leading Swiss Catholic newspaper, repatted the response to the miners~ play in the monas-~
~ tery ~schools of central Switzerland under the headline,
~Catholic Colleges Hail MRA play.~ Vaterland reported Rector Scherrer of Schwyz as saying, ~We can
all: subscribe to the principles of MRA. To recognize

plutely the dominion of God, or to bow down under

ination of human tyrants, that is the alternative

ns S0ves On THE GCCASION OF DE. BUCHMAN SIND BIRTHDAY AT HE.
en WORLD ~ASSEMRES ~AE CAEN, SORTED ON?

which should ~unite us ~all whether we are. Christians oy non-Christians.~ Vaterland also reported ~

how Father Rector Thommen of Kollegium -Niklaus
von der Flue in Sarnen declared, ~Because you live
what you believe, we can whole-heartedly accept this
ideology.~

In Luxembourg where the German miners were Government guests, the Prime Minister, Pierre Werner,
said, ~The: moral and spiritual values on ~Which your
actions are based are the ideology that can fave the
Christian West from its enemy.~

The hurricane blew into Kerala and its 16,000,000
inhabitants, the first major state in the world to vote
itself into the Communist camp. Night after night vast
crowds flocked to hear the evidence of MRA. Mannath
Padmanabhan, father of his State, leader of che Hindu
majority-in Kerala, had found at Caux the secret of uniting with Christians. The Governor of the State, the
Cabinet Ministers, trade -union leaders, industrial. men
and students in their hundreds and their thousands came
to hear:the news of an answer.

Consiiontebs Ousted in Kerala

Archbishop Gregorius of Trivandrum said, ~History
will record our permanent gratitude to Mannath PadmanaBhan not only for having ousted the Communist
regime in- Kerala, but for creating the unity of all the
communities. following his return from Caux. ~ The
Governor of the, State, Ramakrishna Rao, then said,
~All our problems, political, economic, individual, must
be solved in the spirit of MRA. It has an essential
appeal to every man.~

Men changed in Kerala. The leader of 38,000 students made the experiment of listening to the voice of

_ God. He said, ~I am going to end impurity in my own
life and clean up the student body. It is through moral
compromise among the students that Communism has
gripped us. I see that the choice for India is Moral
Re-Armament or Communism, and I choose MRA.~

Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of my old friend Mahatma Gandhi whom I met on the first of my nine visits to
India in 1915, said, ~Without Moral Re-Armament the
new government in Kerala might already have fallen.
Moral Re-Armament will save India and Asia and the
world from Communist take-over.~ When Chou En-lai
arrived in India for his conferences with Prime Minister
Nehru, the Times of India and the Hindustan Times
carried full pages with the double-banner.: headline
~Moral Re-Armament ~ the next step for Communists
dnd non-Communists alike.~ ~ Ais CQERA

Thase pages challenged the two men who today lead
1.000,000,000 Asians to find a new way ~6f~ doing
things for the sake of all men everywhere. They said
in part, ~Communism has failed to produce~ the new
type of man ~ the unselfish man who can develop and
run the unselfish society. The ideology of MRA changes
people. That is why thousands of former Communists
allover the world are fighting the battle of Moral ReArmament te restore the world on the, basis uf absolute

Do~ S And Don'ts

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moral standards. ~ It was a real ~aches and it was
common sense.

When Chancellor Adenauer arrived in Tokyo for his
state visit, he was welcomed at the airport by his
miners from the Ruhr. He spoke to a joint session of
the. Japanese Diet calling for a moral ideology that
could unite East and West and answer Krushchev~s
challenge to take over the world. Next day in the
Japanese Diet.a Cabinet Minister said, ~Chancellor
Adenauer proclaimed Moral Re-Armament to Japan.~

The miners had come to Japan in response to an
invitation from Japan~s Prime Minister and other leaders of the country and they were the guests of the
Japanese throughout their six weeks~ visit. A special
train was put at their disposal by Governor Sogo of
the Japanese National Railways in. gratitude for the
sanity of the news they brought.

Massive impact on Japan

Prime Minister Kishi said, ~You are giving a moral
backbone to the whole world. I wish to express my
gratitude for the massive impact MRA has made on
this nation during the past six weeks. The reports which
I have received from all over Japan have convinced me
of the effectiveness of this mission in giving ideological
clarity and a moral answer to our people.~

A leader of the Japanese Socialist Party at a crisis
point early this year, said that MRA has played a key
part in healing a fresh split in their ranks and prevented
Communism from taking over. A leader of the Seinendan, a political org tion of 4,300,000 youth, cabled
~that MRA had once again won every
unists at the annual election in spite

in the last twelve

A trade union
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Japan was changed
miners, who neede
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ent of.one of the great mines of
d as a result of this change 3,500
~3,000 armed police to keep them
President, went: back to work outs
fied that their just ~) were being met.
"At the Miike e, where workers had fought mel
ers at the pithead,\one man had been killed and hundreds injured. The jleader of the organized women of
the mine said, ~Yqu brought us the answer to hate.
Without it~more would have been killed and injured.
MRA is the answeg to every injustice and human hate.~

And one of the great men of Japan, primarily responsible today for the security of his country, said,
~For the first time since the end of the war you: have
given me hope. MRA is restoring a sense of destiny to
a hundred million~ Japanese people. You are talking
straight to us and cleaning us up in homes and politics.
You are saying to us what no one else has dared to say.~

A movie is going out to the millions which says what
needs to be said in a way that the modern man understands, accepts and follows. It is a: full-length Technicolor musical called The Crowning Experience,* which
in. the words of Arthur Baker, for 21 years Chief of
the Parliamentary Staff of The Times.of London, is of
~indescribable beauty. Its message is so deep that it
needs to be seen again and again and yet again. It
answers all the hunger and hurts of nations.~

When Spyros Skouras, President of 20th Century
Fox, saw this movie, he threw his arms in the air saying, ~Fantastic! Fantastic! Fantastic! This~ must go to
every movie theater throughout the world.~

~. S. Vasan, President of the Indian Film Federation,
sdid of it, ~A thousand times. wonderful. You have
shown me not only how to make a film, but how to
live a life.~ -

Secret of Nigerian Independence 5
And the leadership of the nations of Africa are

-~lamoting for The Crowning Experience..They say it
will blow like a hurricane through the hearts of the

Africans and heal the hating of a continent. Dr. Azi
~kiwe, the man to whom 35,000,000 Nigerians say they

largely owe their freedom, says, ~I spent thany years in
~America where I was fed with the bread of bitterness.

It took me fifteen years to find an answer to my spirit \.

subtlety the social inequalities ~that have created wrong

' \fdeologies between men and gives definite promise of

a cure. And he says, ~Moral Re-Armament was the
secret of independence for Nigeria.~.
Jasper Savanhu, first African to be a Member of the
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in the battle witn Governor Faubus over racial integration in the schools, saw The Crowning Experience.
She said, ~Magnificent! It must go. everywhere. It is
essential in the South, but MRA is now needed through
+ out the world. It will soon catch the imagination ~of the

whole world. Nothing else on the scene can do it.~

Mrs. Bates, and her husband, as publisher of a
newspaper, came to our training center in Mackinac
Island, Michigan. There Mr. Bates said, ~For the first
time in my life I have lost my hatrea of the white man.~
On her return to Little Rock, Mrs. Bates invited some of
the leading citizens of her State, white peopte who had
also been to Mackinac, to dinner in her home. They
came ~ the first time in the history of Arkansas that
such a dinner party had been possible. After- dinner,.
Mrs. Bates suggested a time of quiet in which togethe
they should seek God~s way of ending the deadloci
The thought came that Mrs, Bates should visit Gov -
ernor Faubus, thte man who for years had been pictured
to the world as her bitterest enemy. She trembled, but
she went.,She said later, ~The Governor could not
have received me more graciously if I had been the
President.~ They shook hands, and the picture of that
handshake went round the world. Governor Faubus -
had previously said, ~Moral Re-Armament is sowing
the seeds that will prove to be the salvation of us all.~

Mrs. Bates told an audience in Washington, ~Without-Moral Re-Armament it would have been impossible for me to. meet Governor Faubus without hate. But
I have learned to fight for what is right without hatred.
I want Moral Re-Armament for the children of the
South and of America. We can seé on the horizon a
new day.~ A major American network in its review of
1959 described this handshake as possibly the most significant news event of the year, which could mark the
end of a hundred years of civil war in the United States.

MRA in South America.: 4

In the Republics of South America the hurricane is
blowing: too. Millions read the news of an answer.
Millions more hear ityaver the radio. In one week
alone all the main newspapers of Montevideo carried.
reports of the world work of MRA, and 17 leading papers *
of Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru carried 33 articles. A
leading editorial in La Prensa, the largest newspaper of
Peru, said, ~Moral Re-Armament has a unique strength
for the ideological battle in the world today. It is an insistent call to all who believe in a supreme Creator to
confront those who preach atheism. It is a world effort to
defeat materialism. The morally rearmed are not an easy
prey to materialist indoctrination.~

* Eudocio Ravines, one of the great revolutionaries

-of our time who, trained by Mao Tse-tung, introduced

Communism to Peru and Chile, met in Moral ReArmament a superior ideology that changed him. He
says, ~The basic problems of Latin America are not
under-development, 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 ean
send to Latin America is Moral Re-Armament.

In a long lifetime~ of experience that has taken me
to all parts of the world and brought me in touch with
every sort of people, I have never seen a greater hunger
and a greater hope than we find today. Man must
choose the road of common sense or he will inevitably
take the path of common suicide. ~

Dr. P. J. Little, the well-known statesman and
thinker of Ireland, put the challenge clearly in the Dublin
Sunday Press. His article about Moral Re-Armament
occupied two central pages. It was headed, ~World
War III ~ the war' of ideas ~ the battle we cannot lose.~

He said, ~The Cold War has only to heat up to
boiling point for ten seconds and civilization will be
blasted into eternity. Ideas not bombs will determine
who wins the battle of ideologies, and on this battle
depends the length of time we have left to live aad
whether our children will ever grow up.~

World-Wide Transformation

But the far-seers of this century recognize in Moral
Re-Armament the certainty of cure. My friend Robert

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