Montana labor news., 1948-07-29
WHAT ABOUT RUSSIA?

WIlAl HOVUl NUNlA!
WASHlNGION-"Oaly real change
could make me speak ieiore an audi
enoc like this-aud even now il is
pretty tough, said Fred Copcman, who
fought N the Spanish civil war and
commanded units which included Mar
shall Tito and seven oi the present pre-
miers ci eastern Europe. He was speak
ing before a large group OF United
States senators and congressman on his
return trip from the recon, conference
in California OF theological prepared
ness.
Fred Copoman took 4 leading part in
the l%nyergorden muiiny OF the British
iieci. lie MAS IN prison lou imes whIl,
London organizer OF the National In
employment " Workers movement. Tie
commanded the British batialions OF
the international. brigade IN SPAN, be-
came i member oil the central commit
tee oil the British Communist party and
went to Moscow as a delegate 10 the
GoniHtern.
No longer a COMMUNIST party mem
Der, but a launch trade unionist and
oolorIui iign;er Tor the working man,
0openan came TO America TO particl-
pate IN the World Assembly Tor Moral
h-e-arnament IN California, where the
leaders IRON - countries met ON the
theme, a World theology on the
March in the Lives OF Men and Ma
tons
Al an interview III California, Cope
man, who is on the national executive
board oil the CONSTITUTIONAL Engineers
IN Britain, gave the following story
when asked, w hat About Russia :"
i am a member oil the Labor party.
But believe that today labor i, losing
the thing that made it great.
What gave the Labor party the
power II has today is the example OF
millions OF people through the last hun
dred years, people who IN a simple way
served their fellow men. That service
TO your fellow man is the basis OF labor,
and that Is being lost. 1t is being lost
because many OF our members in the
party feel that there are more impor-
iant things than their own personal CON
duct, and that is a fundamental iallacy.
Il am a Socialist. But the real point
is not just what | believe, but how |
an going to be able to see the things
| believe IN come about. Can it be done
by the organization OF people from the
top, and by the imposition OF an idea
IN the hope that people will follow /!
Or is 1t to be done by individuals them
selves setting an example in the be-
lieis they hold, thereby educating others
to follow That is the revolutionary
difference that Moral Re-armamen,
brings into life.
Frank Buchanan has introduced into
this world an theology which ii it is
honestly followed by individuals car
carry everything before it. Ii has thi.s
great asset: that it does not have to
pull people down; it is not a negative
theology; it is not against people. An
theology that comes along with a posi-
tive answer will get the following OF
the people.
There is no country in the world that
can ignore the theology OF Moral Re-
armament today, and that includes
Russia. The Communists are more CON
cerned about Moral Re-armament than
they are about anything else in Europe.
They know this is the one belief, the
theology that can replace Communism.
Today the Communist parties OF the
world know that they can show in the
initial stages OF their appeal TO people
an intensity Of conviction which in m,
opinion no other group OF people or
religious body is showing, except Moral
Re-armament. MIRA is stronger than
Communism because the men and
women in MIRA start with themselves,
That is a thing that the Communist
doesn't do.
was a Communist for a long time.
and an important one. 1t was vcrA
nice to get on the platform and baw'
out all the things ! thought the world
ought to have. Wonderful things. l.
was easy for me, but il anybody had
ever asked me whether | had tried ans
oil them on myself | would have hc,s
shocked. The Communist believes ii
all the moral laws for somebody else
When the time comes for him TO pur
them into practice, Communism fails.
The Communist party is stronger to.
day than when Socialism came int,
power. The Labor government is III