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8 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Yoesdey, Februory 7, 1961 This page addressed "TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE "appeared in 135 newspapers throughout the United States in January. It is published. here in the belief thet the com victions it espresses are equally valid for Canada and Canadians. It has also been reprinted in Britain in "The Times", "The Guardian", "The Observer", "The Scotsman® and other leading papers, and in Germany, France, and Switzerland, THE HOUR IS LATE HERE IS THE ANSWER FOR GOD'S SAKE; WAKE UP! THE HOUR IS LATE MERICA 16 AT WAR, A war we are losing, We are under attack by Godless Com- munism on a world front and Godless materialism on the home front, Selfishness, perversion and divi sion within our borders are the ao es through which Communism takes over, It is an ideological war, We are losing it because we are not fighting it, Republicans and Democrats it is the same, We move heedless and headless without an ideology against an ideological enemy, America is in danger of losing her life and the ¥ree World its freedom, Ciuns, dollars snd diplomacy alone are no match for an enemy who has all these but advances because of the super-arm of an ideology. America needs an ideology, A change of policy is not enough. We need a change of motives and character, A great cleansing and uniting force 3 the nation We judge ourselves by our ideals, Others judge us by the way we live, Unfaithfulness in the home, perversion in high places and low, decadence in the arts, lawless youth, class war, race war, dishon- esty these are becoming the marks of American life, We are all responsible, These are no weapons with which fo win the struggle for the hearts and minds of the millions of the world, And no USIA can make them so, The fact is that millions who would never join the Communist party make its advance inevitable by the way they live, Chancellor Adenauer of Germany sald, Com» munism is a false ideology, But it is an ideology and can only be met with moral and spiritual weapons, We are in an ideological battle, Therein lies the decisive task, It may Inst decades, but it must he won, A nation with an ideology is always on the offensive, A nation without an ideology is sell- satisfied and dead." Because we do not live an Ideology we fail to recognize those who do, We 'were fooled hy Mao Tae-tung, We were fooled by Castro, In our blind nein we are led by ghose in our own press and govern. ment whose task it is to make Communists look like harmless reformers till they are safely in power, Our greatest sin has heen to cheat the world of the nation-saving truths upon which America was founded, Our destiny Is to free the world of tyranny, Instead, we have cashed in our fighting faith for a soft materialism and retreated hefore the greatest tyranny the world has ever known, "Men must choose to be governed by God or they condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants," In William Penn's words lie America's death sens tence, Or her one hope, The hour Is late, But not too late to tum to the answer There is an answer, It isthe moral ideology that rearms the living and thinking of men everywhere, It is Moral Re-Armament, HERE IS THE ANSWER Throughout 1060 the ideological force of Moral Re-Armament has been at work dn crisis points across the world, > GERMANY On December 10, 1960, Bonn newspapers ans nounced Chancellor Adenauer"s launching of an ideological offensive for Moral Re-Armament in the German Federal Republic, The newspaper, Westdeutsche Allgemeine wrote: "At last we go on the ollensive, Moral Re-Armament gives democracy the moral hackhone it lacks today," 120,000 people, including 17,000 officers and men of the German NATO force, have seen the films and playa of Moral Re-Armament in recent weeks, One of these plays, Hoffnung (Hope), was produced and performed by coal miners from the German Ruhr, many of them leading Communists hefore heing won to the ideology of Moral Re-Armament, Another play, The Tiger, was written and acted hy Japanese university students, veterans of the Tokyo riots who had found an answer at the Moral Re-Armament World Assembly at Caux, Switzer land, last summer, This play will shortly visit America, A senior officer of the Ministry of Delense states, "The news of what MRA did for the Army is rolling like waves into the Ministry, breaking on our desks. JAPAN Following the riots last June, Prime Minister Kishi said, "But for Moral Re-Armament Japan would be under Communist control today." This month he writes, "Our greatest need now is to go on the offensive and make the ideology of Moral Re-Armament the policy of our government and of our people, Only then can Japan survive the testing vears ahead and play her part in saving Asia from tyranny, Our experience last summer shows that vou cannot answer ideological attack without an ideology, At the crucial hour men in labor, youth and politics, trained in Moral Re-Armament, stood up and refused to compromise with evil," Karlier Gabriel Marcel, eminent French Cath- olic philosopher, commenting on the development of this force in Japan, wrote, "In Tokyo a few months ago | saw the importance of all that is being nchieved, It creates a striking contrast with the sterile talk among professional politicians who seem too often not to grasp the magnitude of what is at stake," THE CONGO Congolese leaders Invited an- MRA force to their nation six weeks before independence, The force included black and white from South Africa, former Mau Mau leaders and white settlers from Kenya, as well as Americans and Kuropeans, Presi. dent Kasavubu told them, "You have found the secret of liberation for Africa, All men must think how to give this moral basis to the country," At the height of the emergency his government asked them to broadeast twice daily on the national radio on the theme, "An Answer to Crisis," These broadcasts are still continuing, Commanders of UN contingents from 13 na- tions requested showings of the MRA films and ideological training for their troops, During the past year 140 Congolese leaders have attended Moral Re-Armament Assemblies in America and Switzer. land, "We would have known a more terrible catas. trophe but for the films and action of Moral Re- Armament in our country," said Jean Bolikango, Minister of Information and National Defense, "Through Moral Re-Armament we have seen the way to save our country from Communism and set her on a new road," WEST AFRICA President Tubman of Liberia, in March 1960 > A speaking in the Executive Mansion to members oo" his Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps and other leaders of his country, sald; "All over the continent .and across the world an Ideology is rapidly fostering the secret of God- centered unity, creating incorruptible leadership and giving direction to nations that have missed their way, I invite the leaders and people of Africa to join in this supreme task and fo give priority to the moral re-armament of our nations, Moral Re- Armament is the ideology of freedom, It is the ideology which Africa needs today," INDIA In the elections of February 1960 the non. Communist forces won a significant victory in the slate of Kerala which for {wh years had been under Communist control, Mannath Padmanabhan, leader of the liberation struggle, publicly called this "an MRA-inspired victory," Writing in the New York Journal-American, January 3, 1961, he said: "The 156,000,000 people in Kerala -- Hindu, Christian and Muslin stand together with Moral Re. Armament Ao turn the tide of Communism in Asia and the world," In the Yaee-of the constand- threat from Red Chinese troops across the northern border, patriotic Indians have just concluded a National Assembly for Moral Re-Armament "to launch an action ades quate to turn back Communism in the country," FREE CHINA In the spring of 1960 the National Assembly unanimously voted "to give every assistance to the advancement of Moral Re-Armament in Free China" and invited Moral Re-Armament to send regular task forces to "assist and advise us," It further re. quested that every year Chinese delegations should take part in MRA Assemblies, The first trainees are now at Caux, Switzerland, General Ho Ying-chin, wartime premier and commander-in-chief of the Chinese armies, said, "If we had had Moral Re-Armament, we would never have lost the mainland, Only with Moral Re-Arma- ment can we recapture the mainland from Com. munism," LATIN AMERICA At a time when printing houses, radio stations and 'T'V channels in Cuba are tuming out Com. munist propaganda for the hemisphere, Eudocio This page is placed here through the sacrificial gifts of Canadians from all walks of life. Contributions, which are tax deductible, and requests for information may be sent to; MORAL RE-ARMAMENT Room 201, 749 Yonge Street, Toronto 5, Ontario, and Box 208, Station L, Montreal 6, Quebec, Ravines, former Communist and delegate to the Comintern, founder of the Communist Party in Peru, says: "The basic problems of Latin America are not underdevelopment, but corruption and Communism, While our countries welcome economic aid, alone it cannot touch the root problem, With- out a moral ideology, it may even aggravate the problem, The best export the United States of America or any nation can send to Latin America is Moral Re-Armament." Army officers from Argentina and Peru, dockers from Brazil, cabinet ministers and coffee workers, industrialists and student leaders have heen among the many hundreds of Latin American delegates to the Moral Re-Armament Assemblies at Mackinac Island, Michigan, and Caux, Switzerland, In the port of Rio de Janeiro where strikes and lawlessness had created what the papers called "a reign of terror," dockers trained in Moral Re-Arma- ment brought a revolutionary answer, They united the rival unions, they fought corruption, they drasti- cally reduced the turn-around time of ships, they held the first. democratic election in the history of the port, defeating the Communist candidates, Now they have told the story in a film, Men of Brazil, which is speaking to the world, ITALY In the recent municipal elections, the Come munist-led coalition gained one million more votes, If this trend continues in the national elections this spring, the country could have a Communist gov« ernment, Equipped with plays and films, a Moral Re Armament force is now in Italy to turn the tide, They were invited by Italian leaders including Prince and Princess Castelbarco Albani, whose fam- ily gave a Pope to the Church, and Signora Maria Dosio, leader of the rice workers of Italy, and a Marxist until she returned to her Catholic faith after meeting Moral Re-Armament, The plays went first to Milan, heart of indus« trial Italy and to Sesto San Giovanni where BO". vole Communist, After one performance a Com- munist said: "Unless we get this answer there will be a blood-bath in Italy by spring, This is our one hope," SWITZERLAND An MRA force with its plays and films was welcomed in the Catholic monastery and convent schools of eastern Switzerland last autumn, His Cirace Dr, Bernardus Kaelin, Abbot Primate of the world Benedictine Order, 1947-59, addressed the MRA World Assembly at Caux, He said, "Phe ideology of Moral Re-Armament can win all men because its standards are universally valid, Tt is not a religion, nor a substitute for a religion, It is not a sect, It has four mighty pillars = absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness and love -- on which human living must be based, It is a new way de. signed to forestall a false ideology, May it win the world." . General Henri Guisan, war-time commanders in-chiel of the Swiss Army, gave this message to his people in the foreword to the MRA handbook, Ideology and Co-Existence, which went to every home in Switzerland and to 87,000,000 homes throughout the Free World: "Ideological neutrality can be dangerous, for refusal to fight for what is right plays the enemy's game, We must not allow these military virtues to be killed in us by greed for profits and an easy life, 1 long that our whole »eople should face realistically the forces which cons ront us today," AMERICA In 1960 America produced a supreme weapon in the war of ideas -- the MRA picture in Technis color, The Crowning Experience, It poses the choice to all men everywhere of Moral Re-Armament or Communism, The story was inspired by the life of the great educator Dr, Mary Mcleod Bethune, horn of klave parents, who rose to he adviser to Presidents, Stars of the film are Muriel Smith, Rroadway's original "Carmen Jones," and Tens nessee-horn Ann Buckles of the New York cast of Pajama Game, The Crowning Experience had its world pre- miere on Broadway last October, Stars from Holly. wood, 300 UN delegates representing 73 countries, and leaders from every walk of New York life were among the distinguished audience who packed the theater, In its Academy Award qualifying run in Holly. wood The Crowning Experience premiere drew the rreatest star-studded audience In many seasons, fn a front page story The Hollywood Reporter stated that the film topped the week's box office business in Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Herald and Express in an AS editorial said, "A vivid dramatization of the struggle of free people everywhere to roll back the advance of Communism," Of Muriel Smith, the drama critic wrote, "She quite possibly sang and acted her way into an Oscar nomination," The South African National Board of Censors has unanimously passed The Crowning Experience for unlimited distribution, In the prologue of the film, Joel McCrea, one of Hollywood's most distinguished stars, says, "The future of the world depends on millions making the right choice, Many do not know the real America, But The Crowning Experience is the kind of pie- ture the world is waiting to see, because it por~ trays the true America to which the whole world can and will respond." To produce further such films, Moral Re-Arma- ment has completed a television film studio on Mackinac Island, Michigan, Broadcasting describes it as "One of the most complete television plants in the nation , , , to put free nations on the offensive in the world-wide battle against Communism," FOR GOD'S SAKE, WAKE UP! The evidence is inescapable, We need now to act, When will America begin to fight the ideological war and make Moral Re-Armament her national policy? Washington, clean, straight and God-directed, would be an invincible force leading mankind to its destiny, The urgent need is for patriots ~~ Democrat and Republican, labor and management, black and white, young and old ~ who will put right what is wrong in their own lives and in the life of the nation, Such men will take on the task of arming America with her true ideology. It means absolute standards of honesty, pur- ity, unselfishness and love, applied drastically, pers sonally and nationally, It means men accepting the guidance of God, Definite, accurate, adequate in« formation can come from the mind of God to the minds of men, It comes to those who listen and obey, It is the new dimension of statesmanship, Dr, Frank Buchman, born in Pennsylvania, Initiator of Moral Re-Armament, has done what no other American has done, He has not only seen the need for an ideology but has given a lifetime to raise up a world force of men and women trained and committed to fight and win the ideological war, The governments of France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Free China, the Philippines, Thailand and Iran have decorated him with their nation's highest honors, In recent months leaders from 16 African nations have urged him to come to their countries before it is too late, In America 97 Senators and Congressmen said in 'a message to him, "You are giving a uniting idea to nations which ean turn the ideological tide in the world today." Speaking to a World Assembly for the Moral Re-Armament of the Nations at Mackinac Island, Michigan, Dr, Buchman said: "My deep personal wish is to have every Ameri- can free under the direction of God to fight for America; so to fight that America really be free, free from the tyranny of sin, under God's direction, the unseen but ever-present Power, I wish this no less deeply for everyone in every nation, "I don't want our sons, especially our fighting sons, to go about without an answer, It simply enslaves them, It is not good enough, It will drive them to the same philosophy that rules our oppo- - nents, We shall never create an inspired democracy that way, Men must learn to have a faith that will create the right revolution, If we can spread this revolution fast enough we can save America and the world, Unless we have this revolution there 'will be a revolution qf chaos, "It needs this stronger dose, Sin leaves us with such a dull, heavy thud, 'The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin,' That is the dis. covery everyone is looking for, That is the answer, "Then you will have a wonderful example that the whole world will want to follow, You will have an America to which the wise and honest can re- pair, And that is what the world expects today of America, You will have a battlecry of freedom, and that is what America wants, You will have a democs racy that is really inspired, "Then our young men and our old men will fight as Lincoln fought of old, Our young men will know what to fight for and our wars will be won, And we shall be at peace with all men and the whole world, "The hour is late, Here is the answer, For God's sake, wake up!" CROWNING EXPERIENCE rcmncoon" The el mation picture whose world premiere on Broadway and opening in Hollywood are described above, will shortly be presented in leading theatres across Canada.