The Nome nugget., 1948-08-06
THE GEOLOGICAL COUNTERPART OF THE MARSHALL PLAN

MARSHALL PLAN
 (Report on World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament)
 'You are giving the world the theological counterpart of the Marshall Plan," said Paul G. Hoffman, admnis- trator of the Economic Cooperation Administration in a message to the World Assembly for Moral Re-Arma- ment which to close recently in Riverside Calf
 ''It is my hope" said Speaker Joseph Martin of the House of Representatives i've will together learn what it fight and win the of ideas in nation al and international life. This World Assembly will prove indeed to be turning point in history"
 Earlier in the Assembly 17,00O spectators heard statesmen from twenty-four countries speak in Hol- lywood Bowl rally And millions heard 'the to every ism, even materialisn" the theme of world broadcast by Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman proclaimed to the world in of languages June 4. The sion marked Moral Re-Armaments 10th anniversary and the 7Oth birthday of it's founder Or. Buchman)
 Invitations to this World Assembly issued by 82 Senators and CongreSsmen to the statesmen of four continents, the basis that Theological preparedness is the greatest need of the hour.'
 Precedents were broken and red-tape cut to per init the arrival of many of these delegates In Tokyo General MacArthurs Unqualified blessing' given the first delegation of Japanese to leave Japan and at tend any world conference since the In Berlin, General Clay and the War Department made possible the first representative group of German leaders to come to America since the
 The keynote of the Assembly given by A. R. Mackenzie Member of the British Delegation to the United Nations 'The significance of this Assembly, he said s that has provided ideas that have brdged the gull between le1C ana rlSnt frencn ana Ierman On- nese and Japanese, ndustralist and labor leaders, America and Europe, Catholic and Protestant, and other faiths It has provided the approach to world problems that holds promise of lasting solutions"
 As the Assembly came to close the delegates issued
 joint declaration to their respective governments and people. "The battle raging in the world is funda mentally theological battle In the face of the attacks of Goddess materialism democracys theology must be an theology based absolute moral standards. We to fight for Moral Re-Armament as democracy's inspired theology in our countries and world front"
 The German delegation opened the session in River side underning the urgency of to the world crisis On the edge of the Iron Curtain feel the late ness of the hour said Dr. Michael Horacher president of the Bavaran 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 spirit into the Bavarian Parliament Dr. Henemann Minister of Justice in the Ruhr Govern ment and Mayor of Essen said, "In the months since MIRA has taken hold in Germany we have had more volunteers for rubbe removal and reconstruction work in some of our cities than have been able to employ
 The Minister of Education in Hessen, Dr. Erwin Stein reported that the first theological handbook had gone throughout the four zones, including the Soviet