MORAL REARMAMENT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20112, 5 December 1939, Page 14

MORAL REARMAMENT

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MR. BANKHEAD’S PLEA

CHANGE OF HEART

(TVr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this dav

Mr. William Bankhead, speaker of the United States House of Representatives. tool; part in the AngloAmerican broadcast on behalf of moral rearmament, states a cable message received by the Wellington branch of the movement.

Mr. Bankhead said lie was glad to inaugurate America's first December broadcast when 100.000,000 throughout tiie world would hear the challenge of moral rearmament which he eulogised as a common meeting ground between capital and labour, as a means of making government easier and as the first (lowering of a cultural renaissance out of materialism.

Referring to the international situation. Mr. Bankhead said: “Without a new spirit no general settlement will be possible. Every nation is responsible in that every nation lias sinned. A frank recognition that all are responsible for the present situation would go far towards bringing peace in Europe.

"Peace, in such a spirit, would make both sides the winners in this war; otherwise the only winners are likely to be those forces of destruction relentlessly at work in every land and for which a world conflict is the historic hour of opportunity.

-We stand to-dav at a decisive moment in history. Forces ol unmeasured strength are on tiie march. Is there a force which can rally tiie recuperative powers of mankind to win the race with chaos?

"There is a force which can outmarch all others which, if wo will, can shape the future. 11 is a new spirit, challenging men and nations to a change of heart.”