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Evening star., 1961-05-05

The last time U NJ came to America he told
reporters in New York that he was coming espe-
cialy to Arizona to see me because Of the urgent
need for this message for his country. He had
already sent his daughter to be with us at our
assemblies. His word on leaving me was simply,
"Come soon, come soon to Burma"
Meanwhile U Narada and five Abbots are
coming to Europe for the Assembly at Caux, Swift
zerland, and will celebrate with me my eighty
birthday in June. These worthless are welcome here
and the highest in the land also, who long to come
and find in the quiet of these mountains the key to
their country's destiny.
In Japan it is the former Prime Minister Kishi
and his chief adviser, Mr.. Saburo Chba, who are
planning the delegation for this assembly, with
Senator Ohtani, director of the World Buddhist
Federation and adviser to five million strong
Buddhist group in Japan. Senator Ohtani says,
What Asian Buddhism now needs is Moral Re-
Armament. We in Japan have been given the light
of MIRA. Now we must sweep the whole world
with this light"
Evening star., 1961-05-05
"THE TIGER"

On May Day the Japanese launched their ideo-
logical weapon, The Tiger in Latin America.
Crowds outside the Municipal Theatre in Sac
Paulo were so great that the traffic was stopped.
General Bethlem introduced on the stage force
of $50 people from 25 countries, and read cables
from Italian and French Socialist leaders, from
seventeen mineworkers of Britain, from the dock
ers of Holland India, United States and Brazil and
from Hollywood stars. Former Prime Minister
Kshi of Japan cabled: Tonight is being followed
by millions of Japanese who are joining this fight
to root out Communism, exploitation and slavery
all around the world. Your fire and passion for
way which is not left nor right but straight will
give the South American Republics their true
destiny"
Mrs. Dorothea Buck Of Virginia former
President of the General Federation of Womens
Clubs with a membership of II million women,
received rousing ovation when she challenged the
women of North and South America to clay down
their comforts and complacency, and to unite to
take up this theology without which our children
and grandchildren will live behind the Iron Cur
tain" DR.. Raul Migone, former Minister of Labor
in Argentina, summed up his convictions when he
said, Moral Re-Armament is the chosen weapon
for humanity not only to overcome Communism,
which am absolutely convinced it will do, but
also to show the way for mankind as whole"
Evening star., 1961-05-05

A MONTH AGO sent an Easter message to the
"A world, "All the Moral Fences are Down."
There was an instant response. From the states
men and the ordinary man in country after country
came the word, 'That is the problem Help us to
rebuild those moral fences for our nations and
the world"
General Bethlem of Brazil is man who is
doing just that. In Miami, Florida, he dropped
down on a group of leaders from all the hemi-
sphere There was the General commanding the
Army of Peru. There was the President of Parlia-
ment from Uruguay. There was the representative
of the Minister of War from Argentina, the wife
of the Minister of Reconstruction of Chile, dockers
leaders and industrialists from Brazil. There was
the man who founded the Communist Party in
Peru and brought in the first Popular Front Gov
ernment in Chile.
There General Bethlem also met General Inoue
from Japan and with him the force of Japanese
youth with The Tiger, their play about the answer
to the Tokyo riots. He met Chief Walking Buffalo
from Canada with his braves and councillors. He
met businessmen from Switzerland, labor leaders
from France and Germany. He met Philip Vundla,
the elected leader of 100000 Africans, whom the
police once described as the most dangerous man
in South Africa and Vaitheswaran, six years a
dedicated Communist in South India, whose
change has helped give Kerala the solid rock of an
answer to Communism. He met William Pawley,
son of former United States Ambassador to
Peru and Brazil. From Britain he met Peter
Howard the author, and Admiral Sir Edward
Cochrane great-great-nephew of the famous Lord
Cochrane who helped liberate Chile and Brazil He
met Jamaican leader who said, "You men have
the only hope for the Caribbean. We must mobilize
now for this answer, otherwise we shall quickly
go the way of Cuba"
Evening star., 1961-05-05
ANSWER FOR THE
HEMISPHERE

General Bethlem had held two diplomatic
posts as Ambassador of Brazil to Bolivia and
Pakistan but now he was on a trip with his wife
for holiday in New York. AS he listened to these
men speak, he was gripped by their unity that was
like rock because God was in command. This was
the answer for the hemisphere Within a week he
had turned around and was leading an advance
force of these very men to Brazil, which was fol-
lowed few days later by planeload of 129 from
25 countries, to initiate what the newspaper, eel
Pais", of Montevideo called, "the greatest ideo-
logical offensive undertaken on the Latin Ameri-
can continent" The General eagerly went back to
give Brazil the solid foundation for world leader
ship that he had longed for for his nation. AS his
advance-guard he took with him Rajmohan
Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Admiral
Cochrane, Vaitheswaran, and Takasumi Mitsui Of
the great Japanese industrial family. They pre-
pared the way.
When the main International force arrived
they were met by RADIO press and television. In
fact, one enthusiastic television cameraman got on
the plane before the visitors could get off. 1t was
national news.
Immediately they spoke at lunch to four hum
dred leading industrialists and businessmen, in
cluding the representatives of Ford, General
Electric, Goodyear Rubber and Swift. General
Bethlem said, "Both North and South America are
al HlOSL pOIHIS u OuE HloIOEy ASdlHSL
the background of Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia
where have been Ambassador, and the new Rus
sian offensive starting in Mexico on May Day, the
inescapable choice for Latin America is Moral Re-
Armament or Communism. l know you business
men, because 1 was like you. We ask our wives to
live purity, but we are not pure. We ask our
workers to be honest, but we are dishonest. have
changed and committed my whole life to this
fight"
To General Bethlem's surprise and astonish-
ment these businessmen three times halted his
presentation at that lunch with standing ovatons.
Some people may say this is incredible response,
but here is the fact. Immediately General Bethlem
and his force were invited to speak to meeting of
six hundred leaders of the industrial and business
life of Brazil and to take an hour and hafs tele-
vision program.
Chief Walking Buffalo of the Stony Indians
and his party created such stir coming to this
luncheon that hundreds of school children crowded
into the lobby to meet him. For half an hour he
told them how, in the previous year, one hundred
million people had seen and heard him on the war
path in his nnetieth year in 62,000-mile tour for
Evening star., 1961-05-05
SOLID GROUND FOR
CRAFTSMANSHIP

The Moral Re-Armament Assembly at Caux
in June will be the focus for leaders from every
continent who are seeking solid ground for states
manship. His Excellency Bernard Hardion, a
senior diplomatic adviser to the French Foreign
Office and former Ambassador in Brazil, said,
Moral Re-Armament is a modern chivalry.
Chvalry was inspired by faith and belief in God.
1t was not substitute for religion. We must once
and for all end this defense of past forever dead.
We must take the offensive in the battle for the
future and for the submission of men to the divine
voice"
Dr. Azikiwe, the first African Governor-Gen.
eral Of Nigeria who architected his countrys free
dom, told how he discovered in Caux the idea Of
"Not who is right, but what is right" which
"proved to be pearl of great price at time when
we were on the threshold of great political
awakening"
The Catholic philosopher Gabriel Marcel
spoke to the foreign press in Geneva. He said that
in Caux he had seen power that brought "a radi-
cal and lasting transformation in people. It is
magnificent, and cannot be gainsaid."
Robert Schuman said of his experience at
Caux, II am accustomed to conferences but they
are very different from this. Normally they end
with great disappointment Here we find nothing
but satisfaction and hope"
General Marcel Carpenter, who commanded
the ground forces of NATO of Central Europe.
sounded challenge at the most recent assembly
in Caux, eve need foodtide of Moral Re-Arma.
ment to sweep across the world. Then men in gov.
ernment will be forced to make the right decisions
that spring not just from the intellect, but from
our hearts and faith"
Like mighty army moves this force across
the world. Men and women of all races and nations
united with common commitment The world is
on the knife-edge of decision We must go a-out
to save our nations. When men change and ara
gripped by the fire and passion, the purity and
honesty of a moral ideology, miracles happen The
foundation is laid of new world not on the shift.
ing sand of corruption and compromise, but on the
rock-like character of God-directed men and
nations.
Evening star., 1961-05-05
THE FUNDAMENTAL ANSWER

This African statesman echoes the conVlcuonS
of Eudoco Ravines of Peru, former Latin Amerl-
can delegate to the Comntern, who spoke at the
Moral Re-Armament Hemisphere Assembly IN
Miami. He said, "The fundamental answer to
Communism in Latin America is moral and spirit
ual Events in Cuba are happening because the
Americas have not lived an theology superior 10
Communism. That is where we Latin Americans
are responsible But neither has the United States
exported moral values to Cuba. 1t has exported
dollars and tourists and those things which made
Latin Americans cyncally call Havana the cabaret
of North America. Moral decadence opens the door
to Communist penetration. Many people say that
Communism is the product of poverty, hunger and
underdevelopment. However, l say with the au.
thority of having successfully conducted one OF
the greatest Communist movements in creating
the popular front in Chile, the cause of the pene-
tration of Communism is corruption and moral
decadence Now the government Of the United
States is offering millions of dollars to solve the
economic problems of Latin America But military
aid and dollars alone are not enough. This is the
moment for America to export moral theology to
Latin America. Therefore, the mission of Moral
Re-Armament is of fundamental and particular
Importance"
From this Assembly in Miami returned two
Swiss businessmen who had given evidence of the
striking response to this answer from industry,
politics. and press in Catholic central Switzerland.
One said, 81 came back from America with the
deep conviction that my job was to be ready to
pack my bags and travel to bring this answer. In
world crisis like today the old style businessman
simply doesn't make sense" Businessmen with
out superior ideoogy only help Communism.
think of the industrialists who gave Castro thirty
million dollars and have lost it all. And of the
corruption that has become a way of life for
businessmen in many western lands and brought
US to the edge of the abyss. We need men and
women who will pay the full price of change,
honesty and fearless leadership in our nations if
the world is to be saved
Evening star., 1961-05-05
A CURRENT IN THE AIR

These men of action and responsibility like
General Bethlem get this message on the move. 1t
Is like current in the air. Take the story of that
remarkable man U NJ of Burma. He visited Mos
cow and being attracted by their concern for Asia
said they should be invited to the next Afro-Asan
conference But then he came to Finland. There
he found the theological plays of Moral Re-Arma-
ment He knew the effect they had had in his own
country. He came at nine o'clock in the morning
with the Foreign Minister of Finland. What he
saw in that theater changed his policy. On his next
stop in Stockholm he called in the press and
apologized for the hasty statement which had sug-
gested the inclusion of the Soviets in the confer
ence.
U Nu knew that Burma was nation deeply
influenced by MIRA. u Tin Tut former Foreign
Minister who had been to Caux, spoke of it as 'the
one unfaiing light" and Aung San, the first Prime
Minister whose widow as Ambassador in India
closely follows this work, said, "This is what
want for the whole country" U Narada the Abbot
who is the secretary to the Presiding Abbots Asso-
citation, responsible for 75,840 Buddhist Monks
has modified these monks throughout the country
who believe in the validity of this message for
Burma. He says, "My colleagues in the all-Burma
Presiding Abbots' Association and myself have
accepted the responsibility of rebuilding the moral
fences in our country. Then we will have new men,
new nations and new world"
These monks are enthusiastically at work, and
have shown the MIRA film, The CroWning E1peri-
ence, in the presence of the Prime Minister at the
national celebration at the Peace Pagoda in the
open air to crowds so large that they had to sit on
both sides of the screen. The speaker of the
Chamber of Deputies said, "This film is tailor
made for Burma. 1t exactly fits the need of the
country"
Evening star., 1961-05-05

join in this supreme task and to give priority tt
the moral re-armament of our nations"
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Hiqh-HeeIed Ordeal

A strong minded woman in Norwich,
Connecticut, is holding out against an
of1cial edict (she works in a public
office up there) ordering all female
employees to stop coming to work in
such things as leotards, bobby socks,
slacks, ballet slippers and/or inordi-
nately low-heeled shoes The man in
charge defends the order as a perfectly
justi1able directive against slovenliness
and sloppy looks in general
However, although it seems obvious
that the misnamed weaker sex is con-
siderably more attractive in high heels
than in low, the disSenter involved here
insists that she feels much happier
at least in terms of the comfort of her
feet-in the low-slung shoes she wears
than in the high type demanded by her
boss. So she threatens to file suit if
any move is made to fire her from her
Evening star., 1961-03-10
On Tokinq Down Fences

AS one Of the media involved, we
are reaSSured by President Kennedy's
statement that he is quite content with
the present formal of his news con-
ferences. Actually, the formal itself has
been changed very little since President
Franklin Roosevelt introduced the
system Of oral questioning nearly thirty
years ago. Under Mr.. Kennedy, the
innovations have been to permit tele-
viSing of the conferences and to allow
full and direct quotation of the Presi-
dent
1t is true, no doubt, that there is
an appearance of some disorderliness
about this unrehearsed procedure, with
several reporters often simultaneously
seeking the Presidents attention. But
if this is moderately unfortunate, even
more so might be system of pre-
arranged questioning and its loss of
spontaneity, flexibility and opportunity
to follow up on information that
developed out of an initial inquiry.
It would not be the media them
selveS-the newspapers, television or
radio-that would suffer most by such
loss. 1t would, to some extent, be the
President, who would be deprived of the
opportunity to elaborate, in response to
such follow-up questions, on subjects
which he might wish to discuss in greater
detail. And, If foreclosed from such
eXtemporaneous questions, the PreSi-
dent also would have the less opportunity
to learn what the public itself is anxious
to know-for basically it is the public's
interest that is reflected in most of the
reporters questions Most of. all, it
would be the public itself that would lose
by learning less.
1t was in response to one of these
free-wheeling questions that Mr.. Ken
nedy dealt with this question, and he
did it in the way that already has given
his conferences their most pleasant
touch. He said facetiously that the re-
porters had subjected him to "some
abuse" but never to "any lack of
respect" And in adding that he does
not contemplate any change in the
system, he quoted the homely saying
about "don't take down the fence until
you know why 1t was put up" He might
appropriately have quoted further from
his good friend Robert Frost that good
fences make good neighbors" For if
the news conferences are to be called
fences" in any sense, they have tended
through the years to make good neigh
bors" of the President of the United
States and the people Of the country
In Mr.. Kennedy'S case, with the even
greater freedom introduced, this neigh
borliness and its benefit to all have thus
far been at new high level.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Playing a Dangerous Game

PreSlQenC henneQy was thoroughly
justified in his warning that proposed
boycotts by American labor unions
against goods imported into this country
from abroad could lead to damaging
reprisalS. Indeed, the spread of any
such irresponsible behavior here almost
inevitably would open a Pandoras box
Of evil consequences and counter-ac-
tions in the field of export-import trade.
In the long run, at least, the national
interest would be harmed and to no
lasting benefit of those labor unions or
others who are presuming to take
unilateral action-virtually a sort of
supra governmental action-outSide our
laws and regulations affecting interna-
tional commerce.
At this point, at least two unions
have publicized their intent to play this
dangerously short-sighted game. The
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, for
one, has directed its members to refuse
to cut Japanese cloth imported into the
United States after May /, and the
Textile Workers Union has promised
to support the action. In the Chicago
area, a local of the International
Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers has
announced that as Of the same date its
members will not work with electronic
componentS imported from Japan.
Condemnation of this tactic is not
based upon a misunderstanding of its
motivation, as the President made clear
at his latest news conference. There
is full awareneSS, governmental and
otherwise, that certain imports from
low-cost countries, Of which Japan is
a foremost example, are posing threat
to the makers Of the same products in
the United States Nevertheless, as Mr..
Kennedy pointed out, our own tariff
laws and their administration were
designed by Congress to afford reason
able protection in the context of our
essential overall system Of reciprocal
trade. In this context, he reminded his
news conference, and both labor and
industry should heed his words, that
our exports provide employment here
for millions of workers and have con-
tributed to favorable balance Of trade
amounting to four or five billion dollars
yearly.
The workers in an individual indus
try, as Mr.. Kennedy pointed out, are not
in a position to measure the total ma
tional need in terms of trade reciprocity
Even If they were, 1t might be added,
they have neither the legal authority
nor the moral right to set up blockade
at the waters edge against goods which
are pressing them too hard competi-
lively. If they are unable or unwilling
to compete successfully, their recourse
lies through the tariff structure or in
persuading Congress that that structure
itself should be revised.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Rail SABOTAGE

Although the Congression-
al Joint Committee on Wash
ington Metropolitan Problems
has greatly contributed to-
ward articulating the public
interest in regard to one COM
plex phase of urban revitali-
Zation, especially in empha-
sizing the enormous sociolog-
ical implications Of further
highway development on
the everyday lift of the peo-
pie, its admirable work can
be effectively stymied long
before the November l, 1862
report deadline Of the Ma
tional Capital Transportation
Agency.
If the pending vital deci-
SionS on upgrading existing
rail facilities are abandoned
to those who have consistent
ly contributed to the present
impasse which all the COM
mittee reports emphatically
deplore, how can we erase our
suspicion that the methodical
sabotage Of existing rail ia
cilities reflects the hortatory
prescription of an unwritten
law whose precise formulation
in the public forum would
destroy its effectiveness?
More particularly. If the
downgrading of existing IA
cilitieS continues and the op-
portunity for their effective
economic exploitation is per-
mitted to perish at the hands
Of their notorious enemies,
then and in that event, the
exhortations Of the President
to husband our every re-
source In q worldwide Strug-
gle for survival will have
been effectively Knocked.
The manly realism Of the
fortnight presidential sum-
mons has generated great
hope in us because it sug-
gests q presence of mind in
Separable from q genuinely
creative approach to the SCI
ence Of government. It will
be doubly ironic If these fresh
STRINGS Of a revived public
conscience are Stifled in the
cradle here by those who
even now anticipate adminis-
tering the final coup de grace
to WaShington'S once extern
Sive rail transit system for
fear lest one day its inherent
superiority be unveiled before
the eyes Of an enraged public
opinion.
Mark A. LiIlis
Evening star., 1961-03-10

Job merely because she has refused to
do as he has ordered.
OF course, since we look at 1t from
afar, we do not know the precise merits
of this lady's case. But we suspect that
she will win out in the end, primarily
because there is no doubt that high
heeled shoes can be torment Certainly
no jury (at least not one with women
on it) is likely to vote for the demanding
Norwich Official. After all, has he him
self ever gone through the ordeal of
wearing the things? OF course not,
and that is enough to warrant verdict
against him.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
No More Delay

The Redevelopment Land Agency
has done well to stick by the Smith plan
for rebuilding the Southwest waterfront,
rather than to reopen it for prolonged
study and possible modification along the
lines proposed by Watson B. Rulon, jr,
Of Hogate's Restaurant Perhaps this
seemed harsh to Mr.. Rulon. But COM
pliance with his request at this stage of
the game could have been defended only
If he had disclosed some glaring defect
in the Smith plan, or If his innovations
clearly were superior. In its judgment,
the RIA found neither of these condi-
tions could be met 1t is no easy
decision, in the rebuilding of a city, to
foreclose any new idea; indeed, this is
one of the great Illustrations of the
redevelopment process, and one Of its
major causes Of delay. Yet sooner or
later, If anything is to be accomplished,
decisions must be made which permit
the projects to move ahead.
As a general pattern for developing
the waterfront, the Smith plan finally
has gained the support of the various
public agencies involved. The next need
is for the RIA to develop method for
determining the more precise uses of
the waterfront, and for making its
various areas available to private
developers These procedures, as soon
as they are developed, should be clearly
and fully explained, both to eliminate
public misunderstanding and to invite
the widest participation that is feasible.
Evening star., 1961-03-10
Dodd Commended

We could use more states
men like Senator Thomas j.
Dodd Of Connecticut.
The Senator exposed an
attempt to export to Soviet
Russia SIS million worth Of
machine tools used in max
ing missiles. Soviet Russia
Is and has been for years
the Self-styled enemy Of the
United States. 1Zvestia, the
Soviet government news
paper, naturally attacked the
Senator for causing can
collation. Of the export L.
cense, because he had the
foresight and courage to act
in behalf Of the United
States and against the in
tereSts Of Soviet Russia.
Senator Dodd should con-
slider this assault upon his
character as . commenda-
ton for his loyalty to the
American people. Would that
more of our representatives
were alert to the welfare Of
America.
Daniel p. Sullivan.
Miami, Fla.