N.Z. Unionist On Guide To World Peace

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 17, 8 November 1950, Page 7

N.Z. Unionist On Guide To World Peace

By Robert Freeland For a number of years the city of Geneva has been associated with the famous League of Nations, and the fine massive buildings created for the purpose of the league, and as a symbol of the lasting peace for which a war sickened world was striving, bear mute testimony today to the failure of men’s hopes.. Yet on the borders of the same lake and perched like a fortress castle high on the mountains of Caux, Switzerland, there stands Mountain House, where a greater progress towards the world of peace has been made within the last four years than in all the period of time that the League of Nations has existed. The answer is in a simple truth—get right with yourself and then God will guide you—vital truth. Yet can anyone who has the moulding of a nation at heart believe that any part of such a truth can be done, without? Here there is a simple truth in a modern setting, a truth which has caught the imagination of the youth of many countries and has sent them out into the world believing that as “I” the individual lives so shall my family, my home, my country and my nation live. American youth has responded to the challenge in a grand manner and many servicemen, returning from the fields of conflict and seeing the inferiority of a way of arms, have given all their war savings for the cause, and even as the Apostle Paul exhorted gave also their own selves, believing as they give that this war of ideas can solve the problems of a blasted nation and give the answer to a hungry world. The chorus which provides most appropriate music and. singing at the conference is representative of 11 countries and they sing their songs in 17 different languages. Taking the message of M.R.A. into the German Ruhr, this group of people so fired the hearts of a needy people that life-long members of the Communist Party have renounced their Communist activities and have found in M.R.A. the answer to bitterness, greed, lust and revenge. Several former German Communists have told their own stories here at Caux, calmly and without hysteria, one a follower of the Marxist gospel for 26 years and another for 22 years, and they return to their work in the coal mines of Germany to live this new ideology born of truth instead of dishonesty, of purity instead of lust, of unselfishness instead of greed, and love instead of hate. 'f_ 1 .