The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-09-14
Freedom Crusade is
Organized
In Big Horn County

The Crusade for Freedom in
Big Horn county was begun
this week when j. j. Ping,
county chairman, began ap-
pointing chairmen for various
districts to aid in securing sig
natures of 1900 Big Horn
county citizens for the Free
dom Scroll.
The signatures will be taken
to Berlin for the ceremonies
dedicating a lotion Freedom
Bell which will stand as a per-
manent symbol of the free
worlds determination to tri-
umph over totalitarian tyranny
and oppression wherever they
appear on earth. The Freedom
Scroll will become a part of the
Freedom Shrine in Berlin.
General LuciuS D. Clay, ma
tional chairman of the Crusade
for Freedom, recently made the
following statement of pupOSe'
of the crusade:
"The soul of the world is sick,
and the peoples of the world
are looking to the United States
for leadership and hope.
"They are looking to us for
leadership in a great moral
crusade crusade for freedom,
friendship and faith throughout
the earth.
eff we are to prove equal to
this desperate need, each U. S.
citizen must feel a personal re-
sponSibility. We cannot leave
the job to government alone.
Our nation is the symbol of
these fundamental principles to
liberty-loving men and women
everywhere. Today these prin-
ciples are being denounced and
reviled. We have suffered Sc
rious setbacks in the contest of
ideas between our way of life
and totalitarianiSm.
I'm the five years since the
United Nations charter pro-
claimed the determination of
all nations to 'reaffirm faith in
fundamental human rights and
in the dignity and worth of the
human person. we have seen
the most highly organized and
widespread campaign against
human rights and fundamental
freedoms that the world has
ever known.
what an inspiration of hope
and encouragement it would be
to oppressed peoples everywhere
if millions of Americans would
voluntarily join in a great
moral crusade, would accept
the challenge of personal
leadership, and pledge them
selves to work steadfastly and
firmly until the tide of the cold
war is turned and world peace
with individual freedom again
becomes a possibility!
"Such a spiritual airlift,
originating in the heart-country
of liberty, would be the first
step in putting freedom and
the free world on the offensive.
I'm the conviction that
countless citizens throughout
our country would welcome the
opportunity to participate in
such an effort, representatives
of all the major groups OF
American life are joining for
ces to initiate the Crusade for
Freedom ...a movement of Uni
ted States citizens resolved to
strengthen the free peoples OF
the earth in the struggle fol
world peace based on individual
freedom and human decency-
and resolved to carry our mes
sage of American friendship
and goodwill to men and women
everywhere. The National Com
mittee for A Free Europe is
acting as sponsoring agency to
bring this movement into being.
cit is with a great deal OF
humility that I have accepted
responsibility as national chair
man of this Crusade, for I am
convinced that upon it's sue
cess could well depend the pre-
vention of World War III.
IT am convinced there is
nothing that American citizens
so united, cannot accomplish
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