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• “The owner of a national newspaper said to
me, ‘Many of us have lost faith. We have regained
it again through MRA.’ The president of the
Ear ,est newspaper of Latin America said, ‘MRA is
no i only an idea on the march. It is a force on the
inarch. Our newspaper is at your disposal. Every
one must be reached with this idea.'
“The inescapable choice for Latin America,”
concludes General Bethlem, “is Moral Re-Arma
ment or Communism. We will never succeed in
this fight unless we change men. We are out to
clean up the nation and the world. I have com
mitted my whole life to this fight."
General Carpentier of France, servant of his
country in many campaigns and former Comman
der-in-Chief of the Central European Ground
Forces of NATO, who flew to Brazil to join this
force, spoke to a vast audience in Rio de Janeiro.
“From the heart of the best men," he said, “must
come this tremendous wave of Moral Re-Arma
ment which will win over Communism. In this
ideological war we must confront Communism
with another ideology—that ideology is MRA. It
is because I am convinced of that mat I am here
to conduct a war.
“We need tactics, strategy and means. Some
people think that strategy can come from a meet
ing of men who ane responsible in the political
field, but I do not believe it. I have read in the
newspapers for the last ten years accounts of men
who meet in Washington, Paris and other great
£ countries. But it is from all free men who fight for
Moral Re-Armament that the answer will come."
GOD QR AGAINST GOD
Workers and military find unity in this ideol
. Damasio Cardoso, militant dockers’ leader of
10, told all his fellow-workers and their families,
*T pray to God that what happened in my family
will happen to every family in the docks. We are
either for God or against God. Hie choice for all
of us is MRA or Communism.”
Hie Catholic priest in the docks, who before
Cardoso’s change could not enter the quarter where
six hundred dockers and their families lived,
added, “By their fruits ye shall know them. MBA
is a tree. You can see its fruit. Moral Re-Arma
ment has become a much more powerful weapon
than any military weapons of Russia or North
America. The most powerful weapon is absolute
honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. I want to
declare here that in me MRA has a friend, admirer
and fellow worker.”
That gifted artist, Louis Byles, from Jamaica,
ninety miles from Cuba, speaks for many in Latin
America and the Caribbean when he says, "We
have very little time left.” He starred in that film,
The Crowning Experience, as the man who plays
the part of a convinced Communist captured by
the fire of a superior ideology. He has just shown
this film to the leadership of his island. Said one
of the government officials, “This is not a film. It
is God. We must get this out immediately to
Jamaica. It is exactly what we need.”
It will take brave men to free, unite and save
the continent of Africa. Philip Vundla, who repre
, sents 600,000 Africans in Johannesburg and was
a founder of the gold miners’ Union, says, “There
is great bitterness in our country. South Africa is
being used to divide East from West on the basis
of color, but the real issue is not color but char
acter. It is not only the white men who have to
change in South Africa. We have to change too.
We need it, and I wish everybody to know that.”
Vundla chose the ideology that brought unity
and rejected division. His choice almost cost him
his life at the hands of extremists, but his stead
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fastness has won him the respect of friend and
foe alike.
In Kenya, threatened again by bloodshed and
chaos, the branch secretary of one African party
faced the choice between two ideologies. He said,
“I had an airplane ticket to the Communist con
ference of African leaders, instead I came to the
Moral Re-Armament Assembly. I did not know
there were such people committed to eradicate
hate, fear and selfishness. Our leaders went to the
other conference with a calabash filled with the
waters of freedom. The Communists punctured it,
and our freedom is pouring out. MRA will seal the
holes so true freedom can be maintained. I must
bring the light of this answer to our country in
darkness.”
THE CROWNING EXPERIENCE
A woman former Mau Mau leader, detained
for eight years, said, “Here my hatred of the white
man has ended. We women played a big part in
leading our nation in the wrong direction. Now we
must play the fullest part in rebuilding the
country.” Calling her children to stand beside her,
she said to each hi turn, “Forgive me. I have been
full of hate and have led you into hatred.”
Another former Mau Mau district secretary
said, “Bitterness has been the disease in our land.
From my heart and home it spread like fire until
there was bloodshed and chaos everywhere. God
give us all pew hearts tQ put right what is wrong
in time.”
At the recent conference for heads of African
states in Monrovia, great applause greeted the
special showing of The Crowning Experience. “We
am your debtors,” said President Tubman.
“Everyone in the country must see this film.” He
added, “i will make every possible effort to meet
Dr. Buchman in Caux this summer.” Two out of
the six pages in the conference edition of The
Liberian Age printed the news of Moral Re-Arma
ment, underlining the statement that “Africa can
be lost in the sinking sands of the materialism of
East and West. Leaders of Africa welcome Moral
Re-Armament because it is the solid ground on
which a hate-free, fear-free, greed-free continent
can be built”
President Tubman shares the view of the
Maharajah of Mysore, who said at a showing of
The Crowning Experience, “The only hope for
mankind is to give up no quarter to the powers of
evil, internal or external. Human nature is so con
stituted that it cannot be taken for granted that
good will automatically prevail over evil in an
indolent or uninterested world. It is of the utmost
importance that we carry on this task of Moral
Re-Armament with ceaseless vigilance. The arma
ment of morality is invisible, but it is of matchless
power, and its army includes, or should include,
the whole of mankind. Let us all, both individuals
and nations, enroll ourselves in this army.”
From Geneva, where the fate of great por
tions of the Asian and African continents is being
discussed at the conferences on Laos and Algeria,
a Swiss editor spoke over one of Europe’s most
powerful radio stations, reaching millions on both
sides of the Iron Curtain. He said, “Through all
the confusion caused by many different meeting
places, press rooms, delegation headquarters and
police-bodyguards, move the men and women of
Moral Re-Armament who have come down from
Caux, high above the lake of Geneva, and with a
very compelling sense of dedication are making
available to friend and foe alike their Whitsun
message. This, too, speaks of overcoming diffi
culties in the meetings of politicians from East
and West and I quote Robert Schuman’s word that
it was only in Caux that he found encouragement
and hope.”
The future of Asia may well be decided by
which idea wins the Buddhist nations. Leaders
from Japan, Laos, Cambodia, South Viet Nam,
Thailand, Burma, Ceylon and India are convinced
that Moral Re-Armament is the ideology with the
answer. Buddhism has just been made the state
religion of Burma. Five senior abbots from that
country have come to plan at Caux for the mobili
zation of the Buddhist world in the ideological
struggle. These revered leaders were seen off at
the Rangoon airport by a hundred monks and
senior officials. They have just been received in
Oxford by the heads of two colleges, by the
Mayor of the city, and the President of the Union.
They were shown the rooms in Christ Church,
where this work had its beginings forty years
ago.
CONDITIONS OF SURVIVAL
This is the word of a man on his eighty-third
birthday who has spent a long life up and down
the world meeting and knowing men, who in 1915
paid the first of eight visits to Japan and was there
the guest of those who laid the foundation of mod
ern Japanese finance and industry, Baron Sakatani
and Viscount Shibusawa, whose grandson, a min
ister of finance, his great-grandson, and even his
great-great-grandson, are working with this force
today.' They come with former Prime Minister
Kishi and other leading Japanese to Caux this sum
mer to forge a unity of statesmanship among the
free nations. They carry forward the work of
which General Ho Ying-chin, former Prime Min
ister of China, says, “More unity has been created
between the nations of Asia at one Moral Re
Armament assembly in the Philippines than in
ten years of post-war diplomatic activity.”
It is the word of a man who has known the
personal friendship of Viceroys and Governors of
India and of the men who opposed them, and
brought them together; who knows the problems
of Africa at first hand since 1929, and these states
men of Europe and the Americas for more than
fifty years. He has seen the development of two
materialist ideologies and the devastation of two
world wars, the retreat of freedom, and now the
advance of a mighty answer.
We are facing world revolution. There ar?
only three possibilities open to us. We can give in,
and some are ready to do just that. Or we can fight
it out, and that means the risk of global suicide.
Or we can find a superior ideology that shows the
next step ahead for the Communist and the non
Communist world alike. What we shall never do
effectively is to patch things up by pretending that
basic differences do not exist or do not matter;
nor by supposing that an ideological challenge can
be met by economic, political or military means
alone. Absolute moral standards are not just ques
tions of individual conduct today. They are the
conditions of national survival. We need to scour
out the dirt in our national life, our political life,
our economic life, our school life and our home life
through a change in men. Wherever men give man
the place in their lives that God alone should have,
slavery has begun. “Men must choose to be gov
erned by God, or they condemn themselves to be
ruled by tyrants.”
There is no neutrality in the battle between
good and evil. No nation can be saved on the cheap.
It will take the best of our lives and the flower of
our nations to save humanity. If we go all-out for
God we will win.
“Then it is the brave man chooses,
While the coward stand, aside,
Till the multitude make virtue
Of the faith they had denied."
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