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Book Gordonwise Agreataiminlif Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page iii AGreat Aim in Life An Australian’s Adventure GORDON WISE Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page iv © Gordon Wise First published by Caux Books Caux Books Rue du Panorama Caux Switzerland The right of Gordon Wise to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the United Kingdom Copyright, Designs and Patent Act . First printing All rights reserved ISBN Typesetting and text design in ./ Monotype Bembo by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester Cover design by Sara Marafini Plate section design, scanning and layout by Dan Newman/PerfectBound Printed and bound by The Bath Press CPI Group, United Kingdom Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page v To my Australian family, who may wonder how I spent the past 83 years; To my friends and colleagues, to whom I owe so much; And to those setting out on life’s great adventure. Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page vii Contents Acknowledgements xi Introduction . Pineapples, Pearls and Bananas - The Tropical Advisor – The Wises and Hunters of Queensland – Broome Days – Election Results .All Change - A Home in Perth – Family Tales – The Premier’s Son – After the Hockey Game, New Direction – The Civil Servant Signs On .Training and Action - Aircraftsman Second Class Survives – Crossing the Pacific Vertically – A Cable in Brighton – Chosen for Coastal Command – In a London at War – Lakeland Welcome – The Sunderlands of Pembroke Dock – Squadron on Patrol vii Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page viii . After the Storm - Two Suggestions, Two Prime Ministers and One Near Miss – Churchill’s Peaches – From Manhattan to Mackinac – Frank Buchman’s Whistle-stop America – Rising to the Challenge – Home Truths – The Australian Campaign . It Is a Great Thing to Have a Great Aim in Life ‘Come to Caux’ – Bill Jaeger’s Vision – Calling on the Cabinet – Convictions and Churchill .At Bill’s Side - Germany Rebuilds – Arthur Horner at Home – Striking Out for Something Different . Buchman’s World Vision - Frank the Man –Moral Re-Armament for India – Sibnath Banerjee, a People’s Champion –Drama in Dacca . South-East Asia’s Smile - History at Bandung – Learning Lessons in the Philippines –The Statesmen’s Mission –Gerry Palaypay’s Presidential Impact –Japan’s Restitution – Our International Outreach –ANewColonial Legacy –The Thai Lord Abbott and the Pope – Hope from Laos viii Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page ix .Conviction but Confrontation - Melbourne Miracle – What Buchman Believed – Batting for Australia –ToBrazil and Beyond with a Burmese Monk – Summoned from the Waterfront – Marching with Gandhi .Like a Fresh Wave from the Sea - Squaring with the ICFTU –The Wright Girl – ‘No Strike’ –ALove for Liverpool –The Wisdom of Stuart Blanch .Now We Are Three and beyond Expecting Something New – Tirley Garth’s Gift – Secretarial Duties –AFamily Education .A Long Journey - Retracing Steps – The Songs of Asia – Discoveries Down Under – ‘You’ve Been Away a Long Time’ .A London Life - A Home as a Meeting Place – Friendships that Inspired – Moving On . Our American Challenge - ‘Who Will Be Friends to America?’ –ANew Generation –The Newtons’House by the Roadside ix Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page x .Citizens of the World - Learning about Latin America – Entering the East – AFamily Journey –The Hon. F.J.S. Wise, AO – Finding Flight Sergeant Rutherford .A New Journey Catholic Encounters – Friends with a Cardinal – The Eternal Revelation of Rome . Entrusting a Capital of Ideas and beyond Leadership – Finding the Future – Naming a Vision . Stay The Story of a Stroke Epilogue A Voice from Buddhism From the Introduction to Translating the Visuddhimagga by Phra Bimaladhamma Vulnerability Further Reading Index x Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page xi Acknowledgements My first acknowledgement must be to my wife, Marjory. She typed the first versions of my stories, but this unskilled computer operator wiped off what had been written. The following week I had a stroke, which put me in hospital for six and a half months. We had to lay aside all idea of writing a memoir. Fortunately, my memory returned. Eighteen months later, she had the courage to look in the piles of files I had left on my desk and started to put these together. We rewrote some of what had been destroyed, and added much more. Through the skill and patience of Virginia Wigan a second draft was created, with her valued additional perspective. To Ginny I owe a great debt of gratitude. A very major thank-you goes to my publisher son, Gordon Scott, who undertook the editing and steering of the project through to completion. Without him there would not be a book. I am also most grateful to many more who have both helped and encouraged this enterprise. Hugh Nowell was kind enough to give us the benefit of his insight into the manuscript, and I am honoured that Andrew Stallybrass is publishing this as a Caux Book. I would also like to thank my old friend David Channer, a skilled photographer and film maker who found in his files some of the illustrations, and my sisters Shirley Watson and Penelope Valentine for providing such excellent family pictures from which we could choose others, and to David Lancaster for his terrific picture of an Indian Ocean wave breaking on a West Australian beach, which he kindly let us use on xi Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page xii the cover. And great appreciation goes to Sara Marafini for designing the cover. I apologize if parts of this book have great resonance for some readers and not for others. But I wanted to try and capture in words some of the colour of my Australian family story, which has always meant so much to me, to put on record my perspective on some of the experiences through which I was privileged to live, and to outline to future generations called to the same work that I have given my life to some of the decisions we had to face and the legacy we hoped to generate. Some of these stories are explored in greater depth in the books listed in the Further Reading section. There are an untold number of people whose stories are interwo- ven with my own on these pages, and for anyone who does not find themselves actually named in the narrative due to omission or for reasons of space please consider yourself named in spirit. However, certain faces sprang immediately to mind over the course of writing up these stories and I would like to acknowledge some of them here, even if as representatives of a much larger group. I think of those I worked with in Germany after the war, and then in further countries of Europe and Asia in the years that followed. I had hosts of friends and colleagues in all we did together. I salute each one as they continue alongside a new generation. And I salute that new gen- eration, many of whom we knew when they were setting out on their paths in this work and came to join us in London or at Tirley Garth. I think of the group of colleagues who dedicatedly toil for peace in the Middle East. And in America, North and South, I acknowl- edge the warmth and close comradeship I have felt with so many. The relations and friends of Jim and Ellie Newton in Florida, who became our friends, have a special place in my heart. To name all in Britain and Australia with whom I have shared life’s experiences would fill many pages. I would, however, like especially to acknowledge the inestimable support I have received from secretaries over the years – Nada Bond, Jean Sutherland, Margaret Cosens, Barbara Down and earlier, Lorna Laird, Aileen Shepherd, Anne Mayor, Arundhati Nanavati, Janet xii Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page xiii Mace, Mary Jones, Betty Rainbow and Jean Bruce. And at times I also had excellent assistants – Anthony Craig and Edward Peters, to mention two. To those who nursed me back to health at Wexham Park Hospital, and to those who have helped us in one way or another in Taplow and Ticehurst, I owe a deep debt of gratitude. Lastly, I appreciate the love and support of my Australian family and of Marjory’s family. Ticehurst, East Sussex xiii Great Aim Pre Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:46 am Page xiv Great Aim Text Makeup QX4 24/7/06 9:44 am Page 1 Introduction !" am an ordinary Australian who loves the land of his birth fiercely Iand jealously and who has come to love Britain, my adopted home. Writing this in my eighties, I still remember vividly my boyhood in Australia’s tropical north, enlisting to join Britain’s defence in the Second World War – and the exhilaration of flying solo for the first time – and, on a visit to Rome with my wife, meeting Pope John Paul II. Giant personalities come to mind, led off by Frank Buchman, the initiator of Moral Re-Armament, a commitment to which I have devoted years so far. I remember conversations with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, two interviews in Downing Street with Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and with ten others of his post-war Cabinet. Others I could describe are Australia’s greatest Prime Minister, John Curtin; Philippines’ President Ramon Magsaysay; Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Germany; Jawaharlal Nehru of India.
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