The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-27

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 Radio and newspaper networks carried news of the rapidly spread ing response to this program for constructive living to the far places of the earth. Tn Accra on the Gold Coast of Africa special gatherings listened to shortwave broadcasts of the New York and Washington meetings, and were followed by a Moral Armament Training Gen. ter there. In Burma, the Mayor of Rangoon called Q MIRA meeting the city hall.
 Similar Training Centers were held in Massachusetts and In Min nesota, Minneapolis labor and civic leaders gave full-hearted support. Tn California the night of July io, more than 30,00O people crowded into the Hollywood Bowl for the opening meeting of the Second | World Assembly for Moral Re-Arm- ament, and 10000 were turned away, The Assembly, which met for 10 days on the Monterey Peninsula, was attended by 2,000 representa-. tives from 30 countries. It concluded with @ special MIRA Day at the :, Worlds Fair on Treasure Island, San Francisco, August 1, featured by @ number of short-wave broadcasts to every sector of the globe.
 Millions in nations oil over the world who could not attend, took part in the Assembly by sending their signatures to Q world message pledging themselves to MIRA. From | the British Isles alone came l4 large volumes of signatures. Among those cablbing their strong support were Lord Halifax, British foreign secretary, and Georges Bonnet, French foreign minister. Evidence of 0 possible basis of agreement be. tween conflicting forces in the Far East was seen in messages from Qeneralissiino and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and from Baron Hiram una, Japanese premier.
 Meanwhile in South Africa Q spe- cial Moral Re-Armament National Assembly was taking place in re- sponse to 0 call by General Jan Shuts and other national leaders.
 Spiritual Values
 The latter months of the year, as bombs and guns began to sound again their call to hate and fear, featured widespread use of the radio to capture the attention Of the world for sanity and moral and spiritual values. A series of three world broadcasts by Dr. Frank Buchanan from San Francisco were initiated at e second MIRA Day at the Golden Gate Fair and brought response from many countries. The second of these broadcastS, Moral e-Armament-A Permanent Cure for Crisis" on August 27, was re. printed in full in every London daily and appeared in leading pa- perS throughout England, Canada, Scandinavia and Holland, and in the United States. The third, in which pr. Buchanan was joined by Senator Harry Truman of Missouri, Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd, and II. II. Elyin, Chairman of the Brit- ish Trades Union Congress, ie37-3e, representing six million organized British workers was published in England in Q first edition of 2,000,- 900 copies with an introduction by the Earl of Athlone, uncle of King George VI.
 By the first weekend in Decem- Der, MIRA had reused sufficient iil. terest to launch an unprecedented experiment. in mobilizing the spirit ual force of the world. A network Of 100 million listeners, taking part in the program of world, national and local MIRA broadcaSts in many lands, demonstrated Q universal basis of unity in the face Of donies- tic and international conflict.
 Proclamations
 Preparations for the weekend were marked by an all.ecandinay. ian gathering in Norway, and by MIRA assemblies in Holland, India and Japan. Prominent individuals and influential groups in many countries were outSpoken in their conviction as to the need and time. linessof such e spirit as Moral Re. Armament. Public proclamationS were issued by leaders of all five parties in the Swiss parliament, by Swedish business men and civic and Cooperative leaders, by 10000 Scan. dinavian teachers and education- alistS. and by c large group Of Fin. niSh women headed by Madame Kallio, wife of the president Of Fin. land, The Canadian Federation Of Mayors. 470 British Lord Mayors and Mayors representing 10000, 0,000 citizens, and many mayors and gov- ernors in the United States urged their citizens to set aside the week. end of December 1, 2. 3, to listen to MIRA broadcasts and seek again Divine guidance in personal, com munity and national life.
 Tn England alone 26.000 listening parties were arranged: in AmStcr- dam, Stockholm, and throughout Switzerland. France, China, Japan and elsewhere, other listening groups gathered. Tn the United States the weekend was inaugurated by official civic ceremonies in San Francisco and other cities. National leaders including Lord Athlone, Speaker Bankhead, Senator Capper, Senator Truman, and others took occasion to reiterate to the vast weekend audience that Moral Re- Armament alone could be the basis Of any world settlement"
 Evidence
 Behind their words lay the mounting evidence in America and across the world, wherever MIRA has spread, of reconciliation be- tween husband and wife, parents and children, employer and em- ploye, faction and faction, states man and citizen. The rapid rise Of this new spirit. enlisting ordinary men and women in the battle for 6 hate-free, fear-free, greed-free world, shines as one hopeful gleam through the rolling clouds of war. If, as Dr. Buchanan says, the de-