The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-02-09

the sterile talk among professional politicians, who seem
too often not to grasp the magnitude OF what is at stake
THE CONGO
Congolese leaders invited an MIRA force to their nation
six weeks before independence. The force included black
and white from South Africa, former Mau Mau leaders and
white settlers from Kenya, as well as Americans and
Europeans. President Kasavubu told them, "You have
found the secret of liberation for Africa. All men must
think how to give this moral basis to the country"
At the height of the emergency his government asked
them to broadcast twice daily on the national radio on the
theme, IAN Answer to Crisis" These broadcasts are still
continuing.
Commanders of UN contingents from 10 nations re-
quested showings of the MIRA films for their troops.
1--WE would have known a more terrible catastrophe but
for the films and action of Moral Re-Armament in our
country" said Jean Bolikango, Minister of Information and
National Defense. Through Moral Re-Arnament we have
seen the way to save our country from Communism and
set her on a new road"
FREE CHINA
In September 1860 the National Assembly UNANIMOUSLY
voted ito give assistance to the advancement of Moral Re
Armament in Formosa. 1t further requested that every year
Chinese delegations should take part in MIRA Assemblies.
The first trainees are now at Caux, Switzerland.
General Ho Ying-Chin, wartime premier and commander
in-chief of the Chinese armies, said, IF we had had Moral
Re-Armament, we would never have lost the mainland.
Only with Moral Re-Arnament can we recapture the main
land from Communism"
LATIN AMERICA
At a time when printing houses, radio stations and Tv
channels in Cuba are turning out Communist propaganda
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and delegate to the Comintern, founder of the Communist
Party in Peru, says: '"The basic problems of Latin America
are not acknowledgements, but corruption and Commit
nisn. While our countries welcome economic aid, alone it
cannot touch the root problem. Without a moral theology,
it may even aggravate the problem. The best export the
United States of America or any nation can send to Latin
America is Moral R~e-Armament."
In the port of Rio de Janeiro where strikes and lawless-
ness had created what the papers called "a reign OF terror
tionary answer. They united the rival unions, they fought
corruption, they drastically reduced the turn-around
time of ships, they held the first democratic election in the
history of the port, defeating the Communist candidates.
Now they have told the story in a film, Men of Brazil.
which is speaking to the world.
ITALY
With Italy within % of Communist take-over in the
Spring elections, an MIRA force is in action. They were
invited by Italian leaders including Prince and Princess
Castelbarco Albani whose family gave a Pope to the
Church, and Signora Maria Dosio, leader of the rice workers
Of Italy, and a Marxist until she returned to her Catholic
faith after meeting Moral Re-Armament.
The plays went first to Milan, heart of industrial Italy
and to Sesto San Giovanni, where 80% vote Communist.
After one performance a Communist said: "Unless we get
This answer there will be a ~blood-bath in Italy by spring.
This is our one hope"
SWITZERLAND
An MIRA force with its plays and films was welcomed in
the Catholic monastery and convent schools of eastern
Switzerland last autumn. His Grace DR.. Bemardus Kaelin,
Abbot Primate Of the world Benedictine Order, 1947-59,
addressed the r. World Assembly at Caux. He said, '"The
theology of Moral tournament can win all men because its
standards are universally valid. It is not a religion, nor a
substitute for a religion. It is not a sect: It has four mighty
pillars-absolute honesty, purity, unselfshness and love-
on which human living must be based. It is a new way de-
signed to forestall a false theology. May it win the world"
General Henri Guisan, wartime commander-in-chief OF
the Swiss Army, gave this message to his people in the
foreword to the MIRA handbook, theology and o-Existence
which went to every home in Switzerland and to 81. OOO. 600
homes throughout the Free World: theological neutrality
can be dangerous, for refusal to fight for what is right
plays the enemys game. We must not allow these military
virtues to be killed in us by greed for profits and an easy
life. | long that our whole people should face realistically
the forces which confront us today
AMERICA
In 1860 America produced a supreme weapon in the
var OF ideas the MIRA picture in Technicolor, The
CroWning Experience. It poses the choice to all men every