THE NOME NUGGET
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Wednesday, June 30, 1948
GERMANS WHO ARE DIFFERENT
(New World News)
MUNICH, MAY, 1948—Articles on Germany, still
the key country in any European recovery plan,
usually end up on a pessimistic note. This is attrib
uted not only to the ruins, the hunger ,the daily
battle for bare existence, but to the utter hopeless
ness and the ever-present fear of the future. What
ever the Allied Powers decide to do, the hard fact
remains that the basic answer to the problem is—
Germans who are different.
Such Germans exist. In fact, they are a growing
number. They have set down their formula in a
bookiet, Everything's Got to Change.
Published only a few weeks, it has already gone
over 500,000 copies. In Berlin one man saw a copy
in a bookstore, bought it, read it. In three days he
had given away or sold fifty-seven copies to his
friends—and enemies! The bookstores in his dist
rict were sold out.
The Minister of Education in Wiesbaden has or
dered 15,000 copies, to give one to every teacher in
Hesse. In Munich the Central Youth Committee is
sending copies to all youth leaders throughout Ba
varia. At a meeting in Stuttgart, called by three Cab
inet ministers and the President of the Parliament,
plans for the booklet's distribution were made. In
Nordrhein-Westphalen the Minister-President and a
committee of top labor and management officials
are sending copies to leaders throughout the Ruhr.
In Hamelin, home town of the Pied Piper, the
barbers' union is seeing that all barber shops have
copies.
People say that Everything's Got to* Change is
producing initiative and teamwork in all quarters.
General Lucius D. Clay has given fullest support
and encouragement to this German venture. Lord
Pakenham, British Cabinet Minister in charge of
German affairs, says: "It shows the kind of spirit
that Germany, indeed all nations, require to show
In these difficult times."
The laboratory which saw the birth of this effec
tive formula was the Moral Re-Armament World
Assembly at Caux, Switzerland, attended by over a
hundred German leaders last summer. It was crea
ted by Dr. Frank Buchman, whose collected speech
es—Remaking the World—are now in preparation
in German.
"The central point (in the booklet)," writes a Han
over paper, "is the words Inspired Democracy. So
simply put but with such great effect on the reader,
it would be a remarkable thing if this booklet does
not initiate a new, powerful impulse, not only for
Moral Re-Armament, but for the healing of Europe
and Germany."
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ADEQUATE DEFENSE
(By Col. Robert L. Snider, USAF)
TODAY, "ADEQUATE DEFENSE" in the $64 ques
* to which the government and the military, as
well as the Quiz Kids, are still seeking a better an
swer. Part of this adequate defense is the manning
of America's frontier bases to be ready to intercept
ON THE RMHT ROAD I
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air attacks from any direction.
These bases stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacif
ic and Arctic Oceans. One of them is the Aleutian
chain of islands, steaming craters of active volcan
oes, jutting thousands of feet above the wind-swept
clouds, stretching more than 1,500 miles from Alaska
mainland. These God-made fortresses are being
manned because of the importance of the Great
Circle route to Japan and their strategic defensive
location. Harbors and airbases which once were
thought impossible to build are active today in
order that we may be "prepared." I see all of this
going on from my post on one of these barren rocks.
I also see on these rocks script writers and photo
graphers from Hollywood preparing to shoot a "sur
vival picture" between Willawaw storms and hor
izontal rains. This movie will teach us how to sur
vive if we are forced down in an air crash. We are
bending every effort toward making us secure from
attack from without. The emphasis is on military
effort.
But the big question is: what about the war of
ideas or the cold war, as it is known in newspaper
parlance, What action in this ideological age is
being taken to prepare this nation to fight the cold
war successfully? Today this cold war is hot on our
necks. Little did we foresee this the night we cele
, brated V-E Day. With little thought of future strife,
'several of us had dinner at the Raphael Hotel in
Paris with Monsieur Dautry, the French Minister of
Reconstruction. He told us of the important and
peaceful work that lay ahead of him. I dreamed of
getting back to Texas and had such abundance of
goodwill in my heart that I would invite the Yankees
to stay in my home state. However, within a year,
the pressure of the cold war became so intense that
the French Reconstruction Minister was transferred
to head up the nation's atomic energy program. The
Air Force was speeded up and this southerner
found he was on his way to the Aleutians.
For adequate defense today America must be re
armed with a superior ideology. That is what Moral
Re-Armament is providing. It is restoring to men and
nations the inspired ideology of democracy.
A contractor had received a shipment of lumber
from the mill. Dissatisfied with the poor grade, he
sent the following telegram:
"Have just received the shipment of knotholes,
olease send the knots."
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Tito Calls f or A
Balkan Bloc To
Keep Independent
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approachment toward the West
ern Powers.
WASHINGTON
The U.S, and Yugoslavia were
about to settle a longstanding
financial deal under which Tito
would pay $20,000,000 in U.S.
claims and get $50,000,000 of his
funds frozen since 1941 freed in
this country.
ATHENS
Greece reported shooting in
Yugoslavia for the second day.
Belgrade dispatches indicated all
was quiet. A Moscow report said
the Mutual Alliance treaty with
Yugoslavia remained unchanged.
BERLIN
The Russian newspaper in Ber
lin started sniping at U.S.-British
Air Transport into Berlin as a
“plundering of the city.” The U.S.
sent 157 planes with food into the
capital which had been blockaded
by land for ten days by the Rus
sians. Marshal Sokolovsky, Rus
sian military governor, hinted that
rail traffic will be restored be
fore food supplies, for the 2,000,
000 Western Berlin residents is
exhausted. The Russians offered
to swap milk from their zone for
other foods.
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LAKE SUCCESS
The United Nations shied away
from the Berlin problem on sug
gestion of the three Western Pow
ers involved.
BERLIN
The Berlin City Council last
night asked for U.N. intervention.
FRANKFURT
U.S. - British and French of
ficials started actual planning in
Frankfurt for the projected West
ern Germany government.
HAIFA
Britain completed her evacua
tion of Palestine. The Arab gov
ernments protested to London that
the departure of British troops
before schedule violated the Pal
estine truce. The British com
mander cancelled a luncheon that
Jewish officials had planned for
him, after three British tanks were
stolen. Arab sources in Cairo said
Count Folke Bernadotte’s peace
; proposals “imply the existence of
a Jewish State which the Arabs
could never accept.”
, LONDON
The 21,000 striking British Jock
workers went back to work to
day.
j FUKUI
| The toll of the Fukui earth
quake in Japan was estimated at
3,155 dead, 7.250 seriously injured
and 48,000 buildings destroyed.
ATHENS
Greek Guerrillas, fighting on
the borders of Albania and Yugo
slavia were reported to have cut
communications between Ioannina
and Athens, the main supply route
for three Greek divisions.
VIENNA
Austrian Communists called a
closed meeting Saturday to talx
over the unexpected back talk
Yugoslavia gave Moscow.
NEW YORK
U.S. Communists asserted the
Cominform blast at Yugoslavia
was a “timely action” because
Tito was “attempting to curry
favor with Anglo-American im
perialism.”