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HURRICANE ft; ' /» * ■ ' I Mb ti Of . 111 J COMMON SENSE -■! 7 by ; |jr Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 82nd BIRTHDAY There is a hurricane of common sense sweeping through the world. “ A Hurricane of Common Sense ” that was the headline in a newspaper read by the leaders of Washington. It refers to the manifesto “Ideology and Co-existence” which in the last six months has gone to 73,000,000 homes throughout the r / . ' / United States, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Greece and Turkey, as well as India, South Africa, South America, Australia and Japan. It has already been translated into 24 languages, and will be read by the millions. It puts squarely to the modern world the choice Moral Re-Armament or Communism. Dr Frank N . u . Bochmail> 0 , Moral R<, Armimellt , / My old friend General Guisan, wartime Com- THE CHOICE FOR ASIA At the Miike mine where workers had fought some of the leading citizens of her state, white people mander-in-chief of the Armies of Switzerland, wrote . IC nnnnnn workers at the pithead, one man had been killed and who had also been to Mackinac, to dinner in her home, the foreword to the Swiss edition In it he said, “On . . J?? e hurricane blew into Kera a and its lb,ouJ, hundreds injured. The leader of the organised women They came—the first tiine in the history of Arkansas ■ th»id.nl«Xil „1X tor nhabilanfs ‘he first major state m the world te.vote of the mine said, “ You brought us the answer to hate. that such a dinner-party had been possible. After f i . itself into the Communist camp. Night after night v Without it more would have been killed and injured. dinner, Mrs Bates suggested a time of quiet tn which refusal to fight for what is right plays the enemy s crowds flocked to hear the evidence of Mo MRA is the answer to every injustice and human hate.” together they should \seek God’s way of ending the game. The training centre at Caux is a unique instru- Re-Armament Mann a s And one of the great men of Japan, primarily deadlock. The thought came that Mrs Bates shpuld ment that has changed the conduct of nations. I long state leader of the Hindu majority mKe n a responsible today for the security of his country, said, visit Governor Faubus, the man who for years had that our whole people ehould Uee realietleaUy the ftteS, the “For the first /me sir.ee the the war you have forces which confront each other today, that we draw unio „ leaders, industrial men and students in their given me hope. Moral Re-Armament is restormg a tonbted, but she went She said tatCT from our traditions a relenfess determination to safe- their thousands came to hear the news desfmy t. a. tandjed 3 = -people. guard at all costs the freedom we inherit. O 1 an answer. homes and politics You are saying to us what no of that handshake went round the world. Governor .. . . Conorni Guisan Archbishop Gregorius of Trivandrum said, one else has dared to sav ” Faubus had previously said, ” Moral Re-Armament, 1» l ? This was the last public statement Ge > ‘‘History will record our permanent gratitude to y ’ sowing the seeds that will prove to be the salvation made. When he died 300,000 citizens of Switzerland Mannath Padmanabhan not only for having ousted of us all.”’ stood in silent tribute to the man who was regarded the Communist regime in Kerala, but for creating the , w nnT ni/MM nn rTnnr *«w o w midUnrv* in Wanhiiurtan * as the saviour of his nation. His widow wrote to me unity of all the Rao ' A TRANSFUSION OF HOPE Mo?al it would p ~ “ General Guisan was gripped by the idea and the might Caux. The Governor oMhe of Moral Re-Armament. In the evening of his life it Jher i said, All our polity , what needg to be gaid in a way that hgte j to fight for what is iW was a great girder of support to him.” h as In aonealTeve?v mln ” understands, accepts and follows. It is a full-length hatred. I want Moral Re-Armameftt for the < was a great giroer or support vo has an essential appeal to every man. musical in Technicolor called Tfee Croiming Experience, children of the South and of America. We can see on~ Moral Re-Armament is a hurricane of common Men changed in Kerala. The leader of 08,000 which in the words of Arthur Baker, for 21 years the horizon a new day.” The Columbia Broadcasting sense sweeping irresistibly through the heart of students made the experiment of'listening to th?/oice Chief of the Parliamentary staff of the Times of System in its review of 1959 described this handshake naHnns If i« smashing down the barriers between of God. He said, lam going to end impurity in my London is of “ indescribable beauty. Its message is so as possibly the most significant news eVent of the year, nations, it is smasning a . own lfe and c]pan up the student body It is through d that it needs to he ~e en again and again and yet which mark end of a hundred vears of civil nations and races, dispersing me logs oi mora] compromise among t he students that Com- again. It answers a" the hunger and hurts of nations.” war in the United States of America, threaten humanity and bringing a mighty wind of hope -mumsm has gripped us. I see that the choice for India qknuras President of 20th Centurvfn the millinns of the earth. is Moral Re-Armament or Communism, and I choose - When Spyroa bkouras, orzutn ji y to the millions of the eartn. Re . Armament „ Fox, saw this movie he threw his arms m the air m , R t ajm ° han ., Gan . dh i, grandson of my old friend weryZMed>eafa!e7hrough?ut a the'world.” IT IS A HURRICANE AN ANSWER TO DIVISION Kto - the Republics of South America the hurricane u o nnff'miva is the name of the play God put ment the new government in Kerala might already £ion, said of it, A thousand times wonderful. Y u j s blowing too. Millions read the news of an answer. . H from th? Ruhr. He is a worker have fallen. Moral Re-Armament will save India and have shown me not only how to make.a film, but how Millions more hear it over the radio. In one week alone Hp had never thought of writing a Asia and the world from Communist take-over.” When to - IVe a hfe- all the main newspapers of Montevideo carried ' . ■- at the coalta . foimd an an swer to division in Chou En-lai arrived in India for his conferences with And the leadership of the nations of Africa are ,of the world work of MRA, and seventeen leading play. He cna ng ea n IOU . .. world chancellor Prime Minister Nehru, the Times of India and the clamouring for The Crowning Experience. They say it papers of Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru carried 33 h!s home, h for Ruhr Hindustan Times carried full pages with the double- will blow like a hurricane through the hearts of the articles. A leading editorial in La, Prensa, the largest Adenaue Hp asked them to go to Britain banner headline, “ Moral Re-Armament—the next step Africans and heal the hating of a continent. Dr newspaper of Peru, said, Moral Re-Armament has a miner and h ’ wav f or his own visits to for Communists and non-Communists alike.” Azikiwe, the man to whom 35,000,000 Nigerians say unique strength for the ideological battle in the world oGermaS’ he said, “do pages challenged the two men „ hn today they largely owe their freedom, says “I spent many those countries, iia y d ; n o +her countries i oa H i nnnnnn nnn Acinnc tn find n now wav if dninc years in America where I was fed with the bread of supreme Creator to confront those who preach atheism, not realise how deep jre.he woun< ds the 000,000,000 Asians bitterness. It took me fifteen years to find.an answer It is a world effort to defeat materialism The morally which were causedby\'hat we; d th mgs for the sake.of ah men ewenwtere.T. f y t 0 my spirit of revenge j found that anS wer at Caux.” re-armed are not an easy prey to materialist indocwrong ideology. In an exdus ve a T c n mln JhA P /Sn He added that The Crowning Experience attacks with trination.” Eudocio Ravines, one of the great revoluVnrls headlined Aaenauer type of man—the unselfish man who can develop and ah»» ivfan TaA-himr StA WOTkrsHope.” the Chancellor said, “A nation " Th< _ p tact and subtlety the socisJ inequahtira that have Sh an idrelow is always on the offensive. A nation changes pe O p le . That is \. hy thousands of former wron s ideologies between men andl give. >"'™*£ed. Commurosrn to Penland Ollie, metln Shout is self-satisfied and dead.” Communists all over the world are fighting the battle definite promise of a cure And he Moral Re- Morall a Ideology thAt changed without an ideology >s h „ rr i Pane it of Moral Re-Armament to restore the world on the Armament was the secret of independence for Nigeria. pngew JUngte In Britain, Hoffnung was hke a hu . basis of abso]ute mora i standards.” It was a real Jasper Savanhu, first African to be a member of shifted the prejudices of years. In the spirit: of hurricane, and it was common sense. the Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, mumsm. While our counmeswelcome aid, Re-Armament men hke James Coltart, t gayg The c rown j n g Experience must be seen by every alone it cannot touch the root problem. Withouta British Press and television, took inspired and tear African, black and white, this year, rie says, “ Winning ™ ra i! ldeo^ n r^ y s^ e c* a F p ’ ra * a * e problem, nntinn tn nrpnare for Chancellor Adenauer’s visit. His nnlitical nmwr will nnt hv itself secure the future of Th® 1)681 ex Port the United States of America or any time in Britafn was hailed as a triumph Back in Bonn IDEOLOGY WHICH UNITES the African. We can throw off tiie foreign yoke and nation can send to Latin America is Moral, Re-Arma-the Chancellor at a meeting of the Christian Democi a t Vbor , ' then find African leaders who live only for personal ment. Party referred to the mistrust between ri a his state visit he was welcomed at the airport by his advantage. Unless leadership is inspired by Moral In a long lifetime of experience that has taken me Germany which had been swept aside, and said, e h s st^ H icomM at the airport by n Re-Armament, there is no future for the people. Moral t o all parts of the world and brought me in touch with have to thank Moral Re-Armament for tha . Japanese Diet calling for a moral ideology that Re-Armament is the solution to the greed, ambition, every sort of people, I have never seen a greater hunger In Paris, French audiences stood and cheered. c d uld East and We g s / and answer h H ess and com P etltlon in hl S h P laces over the ' and a greater hope than we flnd today Man must ; Some were in tears as the German miners sang t challenge to take over the world. Next day in the Leaders for the 40 000 000 French sneakine choose the road of common sewe or he wiD inwitably in French Tananesp Dipt a Cabinet Minister said “ Chancellor readers tor the 4UJJUO,UUO F rench-speaking take the path of common suicide. Dr P. J. Little, the Marseillaise in r renc Japanese Diet a capinet Minister said, uiancenor Africans eagerly demand The Crowning Experience well-known thinker and statesman of Ireland^tout the There is a shrine at Mont Valenen where du » .Adenauer proclaimed Moral Re-Armament to Japan. for their peop j e They say its message could bring the challenge clearly in the Dublin Sunday Press. His the occupation 4,500 of miners • T he miners had come to Japan in response to an bloodshed in Africa to an end. Gabriel Marcel, the article about Moral Re-Armament OccSplS two ‘ttrtfld their death. To Mont Valeri en went those Kunr invitation from Japans Prime Minister and otner world-famous French writer and philosopher, said paces It was headed “World Warm—the war of They were escorted by the wife of the General at the ]eaders of the country and they were the guests of lhe seejng R ta]king le J ers fS-Xe^tti“werannotlose head of the French Nation’s defence, and tne niece oi Japanese throughout their six weeks visit. A special “ i came to Caux in despair. Here I have found a - f , President de Gaulle. They were the first Germans to train was put at their d j sposa ] b y Governor Sogo of the transfusion of hope. A deep confidence flowed back . .He said, “The Cold War has only to heat up to go there in fifteen years. They gave news ot an idea Japanese National Railways in gratitude for the sanity into my being.” boiling point for ten seconds, and civtUsttion Wffl be powerful enoughto unite n ati^ B separatedby genera- of the news they brought . leadership - n Aff . ca want tions of hate. They expressed their s o rebuild Prime Minister Kishi said, “You are giving a their Cabinet and the whole country to see this movie. an< L» n * th i? past and their resolve to lay ln e , mora] backbone t 0 tbe whole world. I wish to express They say it holds the secret that alone can cure the Si We haVe * Europe and the world. The_columns*of Figa my gratitude for the massive impact MRA has made racial divisions that are tearing South Africa apart, fj! 3EL 2? mA d 8? 016 news of this event to the Frencn nation. on tbis nat j on during the past six weeks. The reports dividing her from other countries, and undermining rar-seers or this century recognise in Moral Re-Arma-x/ntprinvd leading Swiss • Catholic newspaper, which I have received ifrom all over Japan have con- her economic life. I J obert Vaterian d ’ B to t he miners’ play in the vinced me of the effectiveness of this mission in giving who has tiriee yritten the foreivord to the t reported the r p centra ] Switzerland under the ideological clarity and a moral answer to our people.” French edition of my published.speedias, puts it this Sfir- HdY MRA Ray.” Vater- A leader o{ the Japanese Part P y . ", a NOTHING ELSE CAN DO IT wU to 0 .” Gn/i renorted Rektor Scherer of Schwyz as saying, crisis po i n t early this year, said that Moral Re-Anna- EX.3IS VtAll UU 11 it i« a wSSidot« eSSt “W° can all subscribe to the principles of MRA. To ment had played a key part in healing a fresh split in Mrs Daisy Bates, Negro leader of Little Rock, that has already begun.” ° human recognise absolutely the dominion of God, or to bow their ranks and prevented Communism from taking Arkansas, known all over, the world for the part she dnwn under the domination of human tyrants, that is over . a leader of the Seinendan, a political organisa- played in the battle with Governor Faubus over racial It needs a hurricane of common sense to bring thp alternative which should unite us all whether we tion of 4,300,000. youth, cabled me at Easter saying integration in the schools, saw The Crowning Experi- men to their senses, restoring the Communist and tha »rp Catholics Christians, or non-Cnristians.” Vate r cland that MRA had once again won every seat from the ence. She said, “ Magnificent! It must go everywhere. non-Communist world to sanity and unity before ft akr» reoorted how Father Rektor Thommen of Communists at the annual election in spite of the It is essential in the South, but MRA is now needed is too late- That hurricane is sweeping through every KniiMriiim Niklaus von der Flue in Samen declared, Communists’ outpouring of manpower and money in throughout the world. It will soon catch the imagina- nation today, and in the midst of the hurnMMtoitiw “Because vou live what you believe, we can whole- the last twelve months. -- tion of the whole world. Nothing else on the scene can st iU small voice of the living God, an unseen iwt ever* heartedly accept this ideology.” A trade union leader tells how through Moral it-” fr^ n L^ Ui r e ’ ng and able to speak to the men » .t hprp the German miners were Re-Armament the President of one of the great mines Mrs Bates, and her husband, as publisher of a ji e men , o 1 f ’” as 2 in ? ton ’ J® tiie millions In LLuxembourgirg p-s-g Minister, Pierre Werner, •of Japan was changed and as a result of his change, newspaper, came to our training centre in Mackinac SST22!^’fi3 d S rS Wh ° ” aVe 1081 ve !JHS, ent gUeS ] and spiritual values on which your 3,500 miners, who needed 3,000 armed police to keep Island, Michigan. There Mr Bates said, “ For the first ana Seek t 0 “ nd *tsaid “ The moral p ideology that can save the them from attacking the President, went back to work time in my life I have lost my hatred of the white It is so normal. It is so practical. It is a tanttaM* Sistian^Vestfrom its enemy.” satisfied that their just claims were being met. man.” On her return to Little Rock, Mrs Bates invited And it is common sense. -V-' ■ x \ •. 'A' ‘ This page has been contributed by New Zealand Citizens and further information about MORAL RE-ARMAMENT may be obtained by writing to MRA, P.O. Box 2799, Auckland; P.O. Box WeUington; P.O. Box 8161, Christchurch; P.O. Boa