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was the warm and cordial meet
ing recently between two bitter
enemies his wife, Daisy Bates,
leader of the Arkansas NAAC?,
and Arkansas Governor Orval E.
Faubus.
Mr.. Bates spoke at an afternoon
public meeting in the National
Theatre and later at the opening
of the Washington premiere of the
play, pickle HILL" at was some
OF the MIRA standards that gave
Mrs. Bates the courage to elimi-
nate some Of the enmity of Fau-
hus in the first place and ask for
the appointment, and probably
some of MIRA in Faubus to give it
tn her." Bates said. Mrs. Bates
called the Governor to ask if he
would see q visitor from Trinidad.
Faubus welcomed both graciously
and spent more than two hours
with his visitors.
AL Kuettner, rowing correspond
ent for United Press International
in the SOUTHEAST, who has inter-
viewed both Faubus and Mrs. Bates
called the meeting between the two
"a miracle in Little Rock" ~
don't know what is going to be the
outcome Of this meeting" sal
Kuettner, who talked with Bates.
Three months ago 1 sat in a
room with the Governor of Arkan-
sas and such a meeting as took
place few days ago would hot
have been possible at that time"
Kuettner said that one Of the
tragedies Of Little Rock has been
the way Communists have exploit
ed the troubles there and used
them to win victories in other
parts of the world. The UPI news
man told of seeing in both Faubls
and Mrs. Bates crushing bitter
ness" but a tremendous desire
and hunger to do something for
their community and their nation"
He said they were made enemies
by an issue but that in the spirit
Of Moral Re-Armament, VIII c h
"began to work in the hearts If
each, a miracle happened"
Kuettner said that as a reporter
! he had learned much about the
miracles" wrought when the prin-
cirles Of MIRA are applied in do
nestle, community and national
strife. eve have passed laws and
tried to find the answer" he -aid,
"and those laws have only brought
Pew problems. Nations have known
about their problems and have
signed treaties. And in many cases
the treaties have brought new
problems.
"Now there is a new element. IT
is called Moral Re-Armament. 1t
means simply that I realize where
l have been wrong. You realize
where you have been wrong and
then both of US, working together
regardless Of where in the world
we come from, will try to find
not who is right but what is right
It is working. America is getting
this ideology."
Bates tolG how Rajmohana Gan
dhi, grandson Of the Mahatma
while his house guest in Little
Rock, persuaded him to come to
Mackinac for a Moral Re-Arma.
ment Assembly. 81 experienced
some things there I never exper.
fenced before in my life," Bates
told the Washington audience. "Jt
was really q browning experience
and I concluded that these people
had something. All needed was
something myself, and go'
enough Of 1t to want to I'm {
back"
He said his people in Arkansa.
had been sble to eliminate through
the courts "just about all our lega
problems, but that 1--WE are a long
way from peace"
"The only thing left that viii
give us peace an everlasting
yeace - ere the four standards Of
honesty, purity, unselfishness ant
love set out in MRA," he said. 81
feel If we can instill into the PEG
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