A "NEW WORLD."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 113, 16 May 1939, Page 4

A "NEW WORLD."

CAMPAIGN IN U.S. "MORAL REARMAMENT." LONDON TALKS TO NEW YORK. (By THi-arnph. Pm** Association.) WKI.I.IM.riiN, I'm- day. A nii\ r 1 radio lelephone talk from London to a. New Yni k audience of L'li.fMMl nt Madi-ou Square (Jiirdi-n. U ile-cribed in r-nbh ««auei received l>\ the Dxford Croup ,i, Sew Zeal 1 from : it-i Loiiiloli headi|iiai teri report in;; the] ui.i ii-iii a I inn nf tin' ".Moral lieiirniH-l lueiil " i'ii in pa iirii in America. ! Special facilil ies |.|i>\ idi'd by the Post | Ollice enablel -peeehes -poken into a. , I don mii. i oplnmc to !.!• I laii-niil IPil I t hi- Mhiiitie, .allied l.v land hue 1,. Ihe \eu N~, k audience and re In iiiiili-ti ~l I 111 .. 11 ■_: I I ! Ill' I ii it ■'<£ Males and Ciiiiiidn, I lie speakers from London included j Lord Salisbury, 'Toil Sloan (a former l.a-ci, London dockland agitator), Sir L\ ndrn Miichsscv, lender of (he Par liamentnry Bur. and Mr. Austin Heed, a \\ ell know n InisincNM ma n. American spenkeiw included the Mayor of New York. Mr. La (liinrdiii. the <;.nrrnor of New York. Mr Lehman, mid the ex I Jim cinor, .Mr. A| Smith. In addition to the speeches, many nienftiijTcj! from llritain lo Dr. liuchma'n wcih rend at the meeting. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Bowater, said: ".May the world's yreiitest cities lend in moriil rearmament us a foundation for the new world of to •morrow." Other* to neiid inexwiijfc* included Mr. .Joseph llallaworth, chiiirman of the (ieneral Council of the Trade I'liimi Congrews, 12.'l Scottish I'rovosts. the Lord Miivor* of Dublin and CarditT, l.i Mayors" of London horoujjhs, the secretary of the South Walee Miners' Federation, mnny lending sportsmen, i nc-liiil injor the Duke of RpHllfort and Sir Pel ham Warner, :i.">no mothers (for Mother , !* Day in America), including l.nilv Klphinstone (Queen's ni.iter). leaders of women's movements nn<l Dame Sybil Thorndike. Amonjr messages from prominent Americans read at the Madison Square meeting was one from Mr. Cordell Hull, faying: "The post war period has seen a jfPiicral lowering of the standards of conduct, moral, political, social and economic. International morality has seldom been at a lower ebb. The time i« ripe and the need urgent for a renewal and restoration of the forme:- high Btnndiird of both individual* and fJovernments." Mr. Wood ring, United States Secretary of War. snid: "The heart of national defence in the rebirth of true patriotism iimon-r our people. Morn I rearmament deepens and strengthens that love of country without which no nation \n secure, and it deserves the support of every loyal American." The speakers at the meeting included Dr. Buchman, who snid: "Moral rearmament In a national necessity to win the war ajtninst chaon. It i* a race with time to remake men and nations." The famous English tennis player. Mr. H. W. ("Bunny'M %«tin. said: "The trouble in the world U plain selfishness in everyone. Mornl rearmament U war on selfishness. To change the world we mu*t chnripe the people. I had to begin with myself."