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Friday, August 6, 1948
THE IDEOLOGICAL COUNTERPART OF THE
MARSHALL PLAN
(Report on World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament)
“You are giving the world the ideological counterpart
of the Marshall Plan,” said Paul G. Hoffman, adminis
trator of the Economic Cooperation Administration, in
a message to the World Assembly for Moral Re-Arma
ment which came to a close recently in Riverside, Calif.
“It is my hope,” said Speaker Joseph Martin of the
House of Representatives, “we will together learn what
it means to fight and win the war of ideas in our nation
al and international life. This World Assembly will
prove indeed to be a turning point in history.”
Earlier in the Assembly 17,000 spectators heard
statesmen from twenty-four countries speak in a Hol
lywood Bowl rally. And millions heard “the answer to
every ism. even materialism” the theme of a world
broadcast by Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman proclaimed to
the world in a score of languages on June 4. The occa
sion marked Moral Re-Armament’s 10th anniversary
and the 70th birthday of its fo’under (Dr. Buchman).
Invitations to this World Assembly were issued bv 82
Senators and Congressmen to the statesmen of four
continents, on the basis that “ideological preparedness
is the greatest need of the hour.”
Precedents were broken and red-tape was cut to ner
mit the arrival of manv of these delegates. In Tokyo,
General MacArthur’s “unqualified blessing” was given
the first delegation of Japanese to leave Japan and at
tend any world conference since the war. In Berlin,
General Clay and the War Department made possible
the first representative group of German leaders to
come to America since the war.
The keynote of the Assembly was given by A. R.
Mackenzie, Member of the British Delegation to the
United Nations. “The significance of this Assembly” he
said, “is that it has provided ideas that have bridged the
gulf between left and right, French and German, Chi
nese and Japanese, industrialist and labor leaders,
America and Europe, Catholic and Protestant, and
other faiths. It has provided the new approach to world
problems that holds promise of lasting solutions.”
As the Assembly came to a close the delegates issued
a joint declaration to their respective governments and
people. “The battle now raging in the world is funda
mentally an ideological battle. In the face of the attacks
of Godless materialism, democracy’s ideology must be
an ideology based on absolute moral standards. We
mean to fight for Moral Re-Armament as democracy’s
inspired ideology in our own countries and on a world
front.”
The German delegation opened the session in River
side underlining the urgency of an answer to the world
crisis. “On the edge of the Iron Curtain we feel the late
ness of the hour,” said Dr. Michael Horlacher, president
of the Bavarian Parliament. “It is five minutes to mid
night.” Standing beside him the leader of the opposi
tion Dr. Wilhelm Hoegner said, “Moral Re-Armament
has brought a new spirit into the Bavarian Parliament.”
Dr. Heinemann, Minister of Justice in the Ruhr Govern
ment and Mayor of Essen, said, “In the months since
MRA has taken hold in Germany we have had more
volunteers for rubble removal and reconstruction work
in some of our cities than we have been able to employ.”
The Minister of Education in Hessen, Dr. Erwin
Stein, reported that the first ideological handbook had
gone throughout the four zones, including the Soviet
zone. A million copies of this handbook, “Everything’s
Got to Change,” have already been distributed. Five
Minister Presidents cabled “the ideology of Moral Re
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Armament is an indispensable foundation for the re
construction and peace of Europe and the world.”
The creation of revolutionary teamwork between
democratic parties in Italy was demonstrated by politi
cal opponents, Fausto Pecorari, vice-president of the
Italian Constituent Assembly, and Umberto Calosso,
Member of Parliament and Editor of “Umanita.” Sig
nor Calosso, who was forced into exile by Mussolini and
once shared a room with Togliatti said, “I believe a
miracle will come out of this week. The combination of
Pecorari and myself is symbolic of that miracle. I sug
gest proposing to the Parliament a moment of quiet be
fore decisive votes. Catholic and Socialist making a sug
gestion to the Speaker of the House would be something
all Italy would talk about.”
France, the battlefield of ideologies, in the words of
her spokesman, General Pierre de Benouville, military
leader of the French Resistance and member of the ex
ecutive board of De Gaulle’s party, is “trying over and
above all political conflicts to draw together French
hearts and spirits to rebuild the unity of our country. In
this task Dr. Buchman offers the world an ideology
without which democracy would be an empty word.”
Madame Eugenie Eboue, member of the French Sen
ate, recently appointed to a committee drawing up a
new statement on the Rights of Man, said “My deepest
hope is that we shall put into the statement every basic
principle of Moral Re-Armament.”
The Prime Minister of France, Robert Schuman,
cabled this word, “The moral integrity of the individ
ual, of the family and of the state is the real source, as
well as guarantee, of peace and prosperity. Democracy,
more than any other political system, needs this balanc
I ing force to insure liberty.”
Four British miners representing 60,000 men report
ed coal production, the lifeline of Britain’s economy, as
soaring wherever the spirit of MHA entered the mine
fields. Fred Copeman, British Trade Union leader, for
mer Communist and delegate to the Comintern in Mos
cow, spoke of MRA as “a force strong enough to bring
happiness to the millions.”
He desribed how in the Rhondda mining valley pop
ularly known as “little Moscow,” “The Forgotten Fac
tor,” MRA’s industrial drama, had “pierced the armor
plating of every ideology from conservative to com
munist, and set thousands on a new road.”
The Japanese delegation was headed by Kensuke Ho
rinouchi, Ambassador to Washington from 1937 until he
was recalled for his opposition to his government’s war
policy. Mr. Horinouchi, now in charge of training Jap
an’s future diplomats, said that material reparations
must be backed up by moral restitution on the part of
his nation. “I ask for forgiveness for the wrong we have
done,” he said. “We are determined to devote ourselves
*o the work of remaking the world and the common
fight for a God-inspired ideology for democracy.”
Mr. Horinouchi and his eight countrymen met
Dr. Chen Li-fu, Vice-President of the Chinese Parlia
ment, and his delegation in an
off-the-record conference to plan
joint action for spreading democ
racy’s inspired ideology through
out the East.
Chen Ll-fu gave Dr. Buchman
a message from Generalissimo
and Madame Chiang Kai-shek
pledging their full support to his
“life-time fight to restore the
spiritual foundations to democ
racy through Moral Re-Arma
ment.” Dr. Chen’s visit to River
side was even more significant
due to the fact that Parliament
remains in session. He pointed
out, “China is like a little boy
who goes to a hospital to find a
cure and does not get it. I have
come here because I know you
have it.”
India's delegates to the Assem
bly, Mr. Vishnu Dalmia of Dal
mia Industries, and Sir Homi
Mody, director of Tata’s Indus
tries, largest employers in the
world, issued an invitation to Dr.
Buchman to visit India and insti
tute a nationwide program. Mr.
Dalmia said, “I feel MRA’s in
dustrial drama, “The Forgotten
Factor,” is the real answer for
India’s problems.” “Because In
dia’s capitalists,” he said, “have
been largely to blame for many
of the country’s political and in
dustrial problems, management
should take the lead in inviting
this program to India. I- assure
you you will get the greatest sup
port from the Indian masses.”
Former Prime Minister of
Greece, Panyotis Kanellopoulos,
a man who had twelve times held
portfolios in his country’s cabin
et, said, “We in Europe can have
sunshine at midnight rather than
darkness at noon. Men have come
to this Assembly from a back
ground of horror, destruction, and
tragedy and hopelessness — men
who had to go underground to
worship their God. They came
with hates, hurts and bitterness
and are leaving without them.”
The answer to Communism was
underlined by former Senator
Rush D. Holt of West Virginia,
commissioned by Governor Mea
dows to represent the state.
“Communism must be met by a
superior ideology that will take
its place,” he said. “The average
American is aginst Communism
becuse he is afraid it will hurt
his pocketbook and his creed. The
danger is not what it will do to
our society but to our souls.” He
said that the only answer that
would work was the one that he
saw at the Assembly—“the ans
wer of absolute honesty, absolute
purity, absolute unselfishness and
absolute love.”
Summarizing the impact of
their time in America the dele
gates said, “At this Assembly for
Moral Re-Armament to which
representatives have come from
24 countries we have proof of a
world force already in being, car
rying the the millions in many
nations the answer that democ
racy needs. This answer offers a
practical program of sound home
life, a new industrial revolution
based on teamwork and peace
within and between nations.”
Naturally, western European
countries want to avoid war. So
does the United States. But if
there is any lesson they should
have learned from World War II
it is that a policy of appeasement
only makes war inevitable. Unless
they are blind, France, Britain,
the Netherlands, Belgium, and
Luxembourg must see their inde
pendence, integrity, institutions
and future as free peoples are
’ooTiod. if Russian aggression is
not halted in Berlin.