Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-04

fears and suspicious, | realized how difficult it
was for others to swallow the advice have
given them So it is that certain things are easy
to preach but extremely difficult to practice. This
is the big challenge of Moral Re-Armament"
What is our part? We need this new factor
if we are to find an answer And the world
awaits it, too, from US,
Take the answer that came in a theater in
Atlanta, the hub and heart of the Southern
States. Awhile and colored person were mount
ing the theater stairs to the exit, side by side
They had Just seen the musical, "The Growing
Experience" inspired by the life of Mary
Mcleod Bethune, with its stars Muriel Smith of
Broadway and Covent Garden fame, who sings
like bird, and Ann Buckles, who made her name
with her Broadway and Televison successes
These two gave up all their contracts this last
season to take this MIRA play to the South Said
the white man, "On this basis our two people
could work together" Replied the colored man,
eyes believe they could"
An Atlanta attorney said, I'm all my forty
years in public life have never witnessed any.
thing that has called forth such depth of feel
ing or such mighty response. You are having
tremendous influence and changing the notions
of people. Some of US have had the answer but
have not had the courage to put it into practice.
You are living it and demonstrating it 1t will
reach from Atlanta to the whole country"
Said another Atlanta leader, "We have been
listening to the tick of the time bomb in Atlanta
but you have taught US to listen to the tick of the
Holy Spirit" A newspapermans conviction is,
"You are doing what the Communists boosted
never could be done in the Southern States of
America"
The European and African press heralds this
miracle in Atlanta as the "answer to Little
Rock" tits what the world hopes for and rightly
expects from America.
Africa points the way. The African film
Freedom" has been shown in this past year on
every continent. At its New Delhi premiere the
press wrote, "'Freedom' has been seen by the
maximum number of midas most important
personalities" Said the great Indian producer
S. S. Vasan, Wonderful Wonderful 1t must
be put into every language of the world" 1t was
shown to officers and men in the NATO Head
quarters at Fontainebleau and is being taken by
the Government of the Sudan through the length
and breadth of their country. The Speaker of
the Canadian House of Commons, introducing
Freedom" to premiere audience of political
and diplomatic leaders in Ottawa before its ma
tionwide distribution, said, "In this film our
friends from Africa are heaping Goals of FIRE on
our heads" Africa has produced in "Freedom"
a voice for continent which in the words of
President Tubman of Liberia is destined to
remake the world by shaping the lives of all who
have seen it and all who will see it." And he adds,
like the Indian film producer, 1T is a wonderful,
wonderful film. 1t must go to the whole world"
An Algerian journalist who had suffered at the
hands of both French and extremists in his own
country said 81 am determined to get Freedom
in Arabic to North Africa as quickly as possible.
This is what our nationalist movements need"
A colleague added, Conferences alone do not
bring solution to conflict The only solution is
to listen to God and for each to do as God
directs. This film will render great service to
North Africa and will bring in a new era of peace
and brotherhood among all peoples there