The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-06-29

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CAUX, Swtzerland-A 1O0-man team of amateurs,
spanked by American and British followers of Quaker
inspired Dr. Frank N. D. Buchmans Moral Rearmament
Assembly, has been Waging frontal assault on key
German communists in their ,Ruhr and Rhneland
sronghods for the last six months disclosed to-
day at the world M R. A. congress concluding here.
According to hitherto unpublished report released
exclusively to this correspondent by DR.. Buchanan,
Moral Re-Armament activities in western Germany
have:
PERSONALLY induced more than two dozen COM
munst officials of party cells, shop communities and
trades unions change their philosophy resulting IN
Red resignation from party membership.
INITIATED the training of German M. R. A. disc-
piles for duty in the Soviet OF Eastern Germany to
preach house to house what the Buchmantes call the
moral principles of inspired democracy This program
will go into high gear June II when the first of 1000
German youths to CauX for training this summer
PLAYED an amateur production - The Forgotten
Factor, folk drama-before audiences otallng more
than 900 in II mining and textile towns of the Ruhr
The play caused great enthusiasm among the Germans
for its SIMPLE moving presentation OF the virtues OF the
democratic life, testimony showed.
AIDED in the promotion of management-labOr I'M
derstanding and in the essening of partisan political
feuding by sponsoring acknowledgements conferences
between indusriasts and workers and among leaders
of the bitterly warning party factions.
The keynote of such conferences perhaps best
expressed by Dr. Hermann Kos director general OF the
German coal board which supervises operation of the
Ruhrs coal fields. He said to his fellow ndustralists
'It is not for wait for labor to change Change,
gentlemen is demanded of U.S. 1t is not question of
whether change but HOW change"
DR.. Buchanan, commenting on the report, said:
"The principles of Moral Re-Armament be the
straw that will Germany The amazing response of
the Germans may well prove that Germany is one of
the nations that will teach the world"
Garrett Steary, who born in Cleveland, led the
German crusade For his part he emphasized the per-
sona reactions of the Germans to free honest discussion
of the virtues and failures of democracy.
Our people lived, ate and slept in German houses,
he related 1--WE admitted faults right off the
bat We only insisted that has to find the answer
to his problems in his Goddrected conscience, not
in formal doctrine or isms"
On the wider propaganda front, the M. R. A. group
also distributed several thousand booklets in German,
in which the theme hit again and again that every
German, be he factory owner, worker, bureaucra or
housewife, has got to change personally in order to
make democracy come to life in Germany.
This privately published pamphlet was made possible
by the contribution of 200 tons of newsprn from eight
American and Canadian companies and 100 tons from
Swedish companies. The effectiveness of the propagan-
da message has drawn the keen interest of Assistant
Secretary of State George Allen who is in charge of Of