Evening star., 1939-06-04
Parliamentary Heads
Indorse Meeting on
Moral Rearmament
Nine Governments
Are Represented
In CobIeeroms
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
Parliamentary leaders Of nine
different governments have sent
messages to be read at the national
meeting for Moral Rearmament at
Constitution Hall tonight at $50
o'clock.
A cablegram from % members
of the British House of Lords says:
Unity and peace, whether ma
tional or international, can grow
only amongst men and nations who
become spiritually equipped with
faith and love. The responsibility
before God rests upon every indi-
vidual man and woman, with us
and with you, that they answer to
this call" The signatories are:
Lord Addington, the Earl of Athlone,
Lord Bicester, the Earl of Claren-
don, Lord Clinton, the Earl of Cork
and Orrery, Lord Desborough, Lord
Elton, the Viscount Fitzalan of Der
went, Earl Grey, the Viscount Hail
sham, the Earl of Lytton. the Earl
of Middleton, Lord Mildmay of Flete,
Lord Rennell of Rodd, the Wis.,
count Sankey, Lord Stamp, the
Earl of Strathmore and Kingborne,
the ViScount Trenchard, the Mar
guess of Wilmington. Lord Rankeil-
lour, the Marques of Salisbury, the
Earl of Selborne.
Received simultaneously, a mes
sage signed by 2O6 members of the
House of Commons, including An
thony Eden, former secretary of
state for foreign affairs, declares:
I'VE join you in affirming loyalty to
those moral and spiritual principles
which are more fundamental than
any political or economic issue, and
which are the common heritage of
our people. There is urgent need to
acknowledge the sovereign authority
of God in home and nation, to es-
tablish that liberty which rests upon
the Christian responsibility to all
ones felloWmen, and to build a ma
tional life based on unselfshness,
unity and faith. Only if founded on
moral and spiritual rearmament can
democracy fulfill its promise to man
kind and perform its part in Great
ing mutual understanding between
nations and restoring peace to the
world
Gable From the Netherlands.
j. A. N. Patijn, minister for for
eign affairs, heads the list of sigma
tories to cable from The Hague,
the Netherlands, reading: Moral
rearmament will enable the leaders
of nations to consider unitedly and
serenely problems that threaten vital
interests in order to remove the
hindrances to world reconstruction.
A further greeting from Holland
was received from Mrs. Cort Van
der Linden, wife of former Prime
Minister and other ladies.
Messages from Cape Town and
Zurich are signed by the Speaker
of the Legislative Assembly of the
Union Of South Africa and the
President of the cantonal Legisla-
tive Assembly, respectively.
Other greetings have come from
II members of the Parliament of
Denmark, II members of the Parlia-
ment of Norway and Is Members
of the Parliament of Sweden, all
parties being represented.
A message from Sofia bears the
signature of DR.. Moshanoff, Presi-
dent of the Bulgarian Parliament.
who is joined in his expression of
good will by M. Mechkaroff, presi-
dent of the Journalists Association,
and DR.. Dikoff, professor of inter-
national law at Sofia University, and
others.
Madame Dimaras, president of the
National Council of Women of
Greece, is one Of the signatories to
a cablegram from Athens.
North Ireland Parliament.
The Parliament of Northern Ire
land sends a greeting in behalf of
peace and brotherhood 10 leaders
attending Labor Party Conference
at Southport, England, message
expressing the hope that there will
be such a rising tide as will bring
about the establishment of Gods
kingdom upon earth; and five
spokesmen for British industry a
promise ito cooperate with you to
abolish economic warfare, to estab-
lish the standards of Moral Re
Armament in commercial transac-
tons, to restore confidence to the
machinery of business and thus to
build on sure foundations a saner
and kindlier world"
Hundreds of individual messages
also have been received. 1t is under
stood that some of them will be read
during the progress of the meeting
tonight. following the reading OF
group greetings
Speakers for the meeting will in
clude DR. Frank Buchanan, sponsor
of the Moral e-Armament move
ment, who also will speak from the
main ballroom of the Mayflower
Hotel this morning at 1890, his ad-
dress being conveyed by wireless
telephone to gatherings in England,
Scotland and Ireland. He is cele-
brating his 6lst birthday anniver-
sary as well as the first anniversary
of the pioneer Moral Re-Armament
meeting in London a year ago.
The Constitution Hall program
will be broadcast to Europe and
South America by short-wave Sta
tion W1XAL of Boston, transmitting
over two wave-lengths, GOA and 11.73
megacycles.
1t was announced last night that
the Marine Band will play for half
an hour before the beginning of the
meeting.
The doors of Constitution Hall are
70 be opened at 7:30.
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