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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, June 8, 1949
IS THERE AN ANSWER? THERE IS.
(World Broadcast by Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, at the
World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament, Caux-sur
Montreux, Switzerland, June 4, 1949).
Is there an answer? There is.
It came during an afternoon’s walk I had in the
Schwartzwald of Germany. God spoke—“a moral and
spiritual renaissance. Moral Re-Armament.” Therein
lies the hope of the future.
Moral Re-Armament has found a million feet. It has
the vital message for the millions. It meets the needs of
statesmen. Foreign Minister Schuman says, “Now we
need to give ideological content to the lives of the mil
lions of Europe.”
The worker, too, finds that there is enough in the
world for everyone’s need, but not enough for every
one’s greed.
Moral Re-Armament has the tremendous uniting
power that comes from change in both East and West.
It gives the full dimension of change. Economic chance.
Social change. National change. International change.
All based on personal change. It creates a personal opin
ion that can change the fate of nations. It presents a
force adequate to remake the world. It shows how to
unite nation and nation, and creates inspired democracy
in families, industries, cabinets and nations. It is the in
spired living that makes nations think and live. It has
God’s mind.
It work in Germany. It becomes the policy of Minis
ter-Presidents. Karl Arnold, Minister-President of
North Rhine-Westphalia, says, “The real answer to any
ideology must be a superior ideology. Germany needs
an inspired ideology to support her new democracy.
Moral Re-Armament is the spiritual road to a new Eu
rope. In our cabinet we have already begun to see the
fruits of this ideology at work. This is the ideology
which can bring us the moral and spiritual healing we
need in our nation and provide a real basis of peace
with other nations. When the nations of the world seek
the good road with conviction and passion, then I be
lieve there is a new beginning for the world.”
His colleague Minister-President Ehard of Bavaria
echoes his thought when he says of Moral Re-Arma
ment, “This is what the world can be. This is what the
world should be. This is what the world must be.”
This works for everyone everywhere. What man;
wants is security—a hate-free, fear-free, greed-free j
world. The bottleneck is that people say human nature i
cannot change. But human nature does change, and the
nature of nations can change too.
In the battle for new men, for new nations and a new
world we must have adequate weapons. The plays “The
Good Road” and “The Forgotten Factor” have spoken
to their thousands in many lands and languages. Now
they are being filmed and will speak to their millions.
People marvel at the irresistible power of a God-given
idea. A German Marxist in Baden-Baden said after see
ing the play, “It was as if I had been toiling up a long
hill and had suddenly seen a city of light.”
A French official in Germany said, “I was over
whelmed by the power of this play. If it has been given
four years ago there would have been no difficulties be
tween the French and the Germans. I am determined to
see this spirit is applied in my administration and in my
own life.”
Reinhold Schneider, the great Catholic writer, said,
“This is what the whole world must hear.”
What is the response of German industry? 150 of the
Ruhr industrialists met at the invitation of Generaldi
rektor Kost, head of the German Coal Board, to plan
how the spirit of Moral Re-Armament could be brought
right through the industry of the Ruhr. Someone said
that if a bomb had been dropped on that room produc
tion would have stopped in the Ruhr. They heard indus
trial and trade union leaders from a dozen countries
speak. Mr. Kost gave the keynote. “It is not for us to
wait for labor to change. Change, Gentlemen, is de
manded of us.” And he further said, “It is not a ques
tion whether we change, but how we change.”
Dr. Hans Boeckler, Chairman of the Trade Unions of
the British Zone, was at this conference. He says, “If
men are to be free from the old and the out-moded, it
can happen as they set themselves a new goal, and place
in the forefront humanity and moral values. I believe
that Moral Re-Armament can bring about a definite im
provement for mankind in many areas of life. When
men change, the structure of society changes, and when
the structure of society changes, men change. Both go
together and both are necessary. The goal which Moral
Re-Armament strives to reach is the same as that for
which I am fighting as a trade unionist.”
We have had half of the Twentieth Century. Who has
the key to the second half? The nation whose youth
finds the answer td nihilism and apathy.
A Heidelberg student editor said, “All of us students
have come to a dead end. Moral Re-Armament is the
only thing that gives an answer.”
“The Forgotten Factor” was given in Bonn. The Rec
tor of the University, a Catholic priest, welcomed the
play by saying that what St. Francis had done for the
crisis of the Thirteenth Century a similar movement,
Moral Re-Armament, was doing for the yet greater cri
sis of today., He saw his students respond in their hun
dreds and as a result the Rector came to Caux.
In Freiburg a student came to “The Forgotten Fac
tor” when all the tickets had gone and pleaded to be let
in. He said he had come from the East Zone of Germany
for a short visit and had to go back the next morning.
He said, “Everyone in the East Zone speaks about Mor
al Re-Armament. They do not all know quite what it is,
but apparently it is our only hope. My friends told me to
make sure to find out what it really is and I won’t go
back without having seen it in action for myself.”
Everyone feels Moral Re-Armament has the answer
for Germany, but not everyone realizes that a reborn
Germany would have the answer for them. The fate of
Germany is the fate of Europe.
Dr. Peters, Professor of Law in the University of Ber
lin, in his recent book on the “Problems of German De
mocracy” describes seven forms of democracy in his
tory and concludes with the “Inspired Democracy” of
Moral Re-Armament as the answer to the failure of de
mocracy in our day.
A trade Union President of 170,000 workers in Ber
lin says, “How do I find the peace in my heart that en
ables me to know what is the right thing to do? You
need apostles, I will be one. You are bringing this mes
sage like a storm to humanity.”
Is there an answer for Paris? Is there any other
answer?
A leading German Socialist says, “Any unity in Eu
rope must have Moral Re-Armament.”
A French woman, Madame Laure, former head of the
Socialist Women of France, replies, “I had good reason
to hate Germans when I came to Caux. But a miracle
happened. When I found Germans who lived Moral Re
Armament my hatred died. A common ideology is doing
| for France and Germany today what sentimentality
i never did between the two wars. Now we have this
! firm ground to stand on from which both sides are
; honestly striving to build the bridge of understanding.”
These words find response across the world from the
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr. Walter
' Nash, who says “MRA is bringing a new note between
person and person, employer and employees, govern
ment and government. What they do must prevail. It is
the most powerful agency in the world. How long it
takes depends on us.”
Nations can find a new spirit when men begin to
work together. It does not take many. The East gives
us an example. The front page of “The Burman,” Ran
goon’s daily paper, carries this headline, “Nationwide
j spiritual advance. We want an idea that will lift us
l above every prejudice, all faction-feeling and self-seek
ing.”
National leaders came together in Burma’s dark hou
i to light the torch of a moral and spiritual awakening. Is
! that the new note in government? Is that why the cdi
} tor of "The Burman” is on his
way to Caux?
People respond when statesmen
jgive a selfless lead.
General Ho Ying-chki, China’s
■ soldier-Prime Minister, sends me
I
j the message that he will never
‘ compromise on moral principles.
Does your natipn act on principle,
, or on expediency?
India hears the coll of Moral Re
Armament. Mr. G. L. Nanda, Min
ister of Labor in the government
of Bombay, presents a pledge to
the people of India which contain
■ these words, "The strength of an
i individual and a nation depends
on the virtues of love, purity, un
I selfishness and honesty.”
“Moral Re-Armament is the
ideology that will answer hatred,”
says the Maxist. “It has taken
away my hatred of the white
man,” says Louis Byles, gifted
singer from Jamaica.
Why is Moral Re-Armament the
answer? Because it deals with the
fundamental problem. A mid
western farmer said, “I used to
wonder why I read by Old Testa
' ment when God stopped talking
to people. When I met Moral Re
Armament. I realized He hadn’t
stopped talking, people had stop
' ped listening.”
Someone has said that the mod
ern man is not worried about his
jsins, but the result is that he is
worried about almost everything
else.
Moral Re-Armament takes sin
seriously. And it takes Christ seri
ously. Bishop Uurm of Germany
writes, “In Moral Re-Armament
people do not talk so much about
1 the Cross of Christ, but they live
by the power of the Cross of
Christ. All come under its influ
ence. That is why they can unite
parlies, nations and confessions.”
“It is the one sure hope for a
c umbling civilization,” says Glas
gow’s Catholic former Lord Pro
vost, Sir Patrick Dollan.
A labor leader sums it up,
, “Moral Re-Armament is not a new
trade union. It is not a new reli
gion. It is not a new political
party. It is the remedy in the com
mon fight for a new world.”
Is there an answer? There is.
All we need is the millions who
| say, “Yes, I will.”
—
Gen. Fleming New
Head Of Maritime
Commission
WASHINGTON, UP)—The mari
time commission yesterday swap
ped an admiral for a general as
its new chairman.
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
former federal works administra
tor and trouble-shooter for Presi
dents Roosevelt and Truman, was
sworn in as head of the agency.
He succeeded Adm. W. W.
Smith, whose term expired on
April 15. The commission had
been without a regular chairman
since then.
After taking the oath, Fleming
said there will be “no shakeup” in
the commission which has been
the target of numerous blasts
from Congress as well as the Hoo
ver commission on government
reorganization.
The maritime commission is
charged with federal supervision
of the merchant marine.
The Hoover group said the
agency was “leaderless” and mem
bers were “often at odds wilh
each other.” Fleming promised co
operation with the other members.
Fleming, a native of Burling
ton, la., was federal works ad
ministrator for eight years when
the President chose him last'
month for the maritime post.