Volume 23 No 35 28 JUNE 1976 7p

FOR MORAL RE-ARMAMENT

The following report appeared in Neue Ziircher Chief Devid Crowchild of the Sarcee Indians opens the conference. With him are (I to r) his grandson, Zeitung on 9 June: Ralph Crane: Dr Paul Campbell; and Richard Ruffin from Virginia. Conference for L^anada and the USA- a peaceful partners in a world task solution in bitter feelings towards the white people. 380 people from We need now to stand together and 18 countries attend fight for what is right.' SALISBURY,JUNE 8-About 800 blacks Chief John Snow, also of the Stoney and whites took part in the opening Banff conference Tribe, said: 'We must once again listen session of a conference in Salisbury .to- the voice of the .Great Spirit. Some \N BANFF, -wherer the Bow River cuts: organised by Moral Re-Armament for a times he speaks through the wind or the eastward from the glaciers of the peaceful solution in Rhodesia. While laughing water or the song of a bird. Canadian Rockies to the plains below. otherwise the rather pessimistic prognos The Great Spirit put us on this continent Chief David Crowchild opened a Moral tics concerning the future of the country for a purpose. I would remind you of Re-Armament Conference for North prevail at the present moment, the the beautiful forest: the trees vary - America earher this month. Chief spokesmen at this gathering stressed the some are tall, some crooked, some small. Crowchild, a respected elder of the possibilities of an agreement between the They vary in colour, they are black, Albertan Indians, was one of four different groups of the population. brown, white or yellow. Together they Chiefs of the Sarcee and Stoney tribes Several cabinet ministers, among them make a beautiful forest. The secret is who welcomed travellers to the con- the Deputy Prime Minister John ftrnftnce from as far as New Zealand and that they follow the plan of the Creator. Wrathall, listened to a statement by one ^ .theast Asia, as well as countries of We from various nationalities, races, and of the leading men of the African Europe and Africa. colours could work together to build a National Council (ANC), the Vice- 380 people from 18 countries attended better tomorrow, where there is life and President Dr Elliott Gabellah. On this brotherhood and peace.' occasion Alec Smith, the son of the the sessions on the theme 'Canada and Chief Gordon Crowchild, Chief of the the United States - partners in a world Prime Minister, , also spoke. Sarcee Indians and son of Chief David task'. Frederick Kidd, member of the Alec Smith declared that his country Crowchild, said, 'The first time I went Alberta Legislative Assembly represent is looking for a solution through which ing Banff-Cochrane, brought greetings to to a conference like this was in 1958 the problems of race and injustice can when I was a wild young whipper- be overcome. Gabellah expressed his fear them from the Provincial Government snapper. I had a lot of ideas, but I that a bloodbath would occur if the and Premier. didn't have the right ideas. Moral Re- Rhodesians did not bring God into their 'When I met Moral Re-Armament,' Armament is the idea of listening to your said Chief Crowchild, 'I started to hsten attempt to find an answer. The Mayor deepest thoughts. We have a challenge to God. I think a lot about the other of Sahsbury, Tony Tanser, emphasized countries of the world and I pray for in our life - it is just "yes" or "no". This in his address, how happy he was that them. This is the only way-to be is what I find in my job as Chief. It this gathering was so cosmopolitan. has helped me a lot.' honest and unselfish, to have purity and An interesting intervention at the con ference came from Chief Mangope, the love.' World looks to The Chief recalled the occasion in black Chief Minister of the South North America African Homeland Bophuthatswana. He Banff in 1934 when Dr Frank Buchman, praised the attempt to bring about the initiator of MRA, was made a blood Speaking to an audience that included brother of the Stoney Indians by the 60 people from 12 states of the USA detente between Prime Minister Vorster and the Presidents of Zambia, Tanzania late Chief Walking Buffalo. a senior South East Asian diplomat said, Chief Walking Buffalo's son. Chief 'If the dignity and confidence of the and Botswana. Mangope also declared that there was a change in attitude Bill McLean, said, 'I have taken the United States is restored quickly, to responsibility of my father. I used to be gether with the moral leadership that the among the South African whites and very superior to other people. I had CANADA ft USA continued on page 2 RHODESIA continued on page 4 brother of the Stoneys. I appreciate that heritage because it gave us a head start and we decided to make God the third partner in our marriage from the be ginning.' Harry Almond asked: 'When will America learn the lesson of ideology? Ideology is the critical, decisive factor, and it begins in the homes of ordinary people. Bust up at the breakfast table ends in bust up at the office table. To make family life work you need to have a commitment beyond the family. With out that commitment you can't make family life work - with it you always can. The only inexhaustible resource is character. The only heritage we can give our children is that reference point be yond ourselves of absolute moral W\ standards.' Mrs Waka Tipoki (right) wife of a Maori alder from New Zealand, with Mrs John Snow, wife of the A delegation of 26 - French and Eng Stoney chief. Mrs Tipoki, who attended the conference with the blessing of the Catholic Archbishop lish speaking - travelled across Canada and the Maori Bishop of New Zealand, had raised her fare to Canada by selling her car and cattle. Photos: Weeks from Quebec. Jean DesGroseiUers, a full-time official CANADA & USA continued from page 1 versity, said, 'Abraham Lincoln talked of the sheet metal workers union in Montreal, said that despite incre'^1 USA will give to the world, we will have a hundred years ago about America- wages in the labour movement in Quebec a safer world for generations to come. that she could not continue half-slave there were still great gaps between the The strong and firm voice of the USA and half-free. We are in a situation now classes that had to be bridged. 'We have is still respected.' where the world cannot continue half- different levels of social classes. I, for A S Bhathena, an industrialist from slave and half-free. The world cannot one, have participated with MRA so that India, appealed for a new type of aid continue half-rich and half-poor. I be there could be contact between people to from North America: 'Your problems lieve it is within our decisions here- take away some of the prejudices that seem so small compared with ours. Yours each of us individually - before God - exist.' are those of affluence; our problems are to help to make the wealth of the world and the work and the responsibility of those of dire poverty. We need a lot of Farmers destiny good will, but what we need most in the world available to everyone and for our country are good men from your the exploitation of none.' John Bocock, co-manager of a 1500- continent.' He appreciated the material Mr and Mrs Harry Almond from New acre prize-winning farm in Alberta, and aid sent to India, but emphasized much Jersey were joined on the platform by Chairman of Unifarm (the farmers' more the need for men trained in Moral their daughter and son-in-law, who union) of his district, chaired a plenary Re-Armament to come to his country. represented the third generation com session on the theme, 'Feeding the world Professor A Hazeghi, a former mem mitted to MRA. Mrs Almond said: '41 with bread and ideas'. ber of parliament from Iran, appealed to years ago my father was present in Banff At a time when Canadian prairie the USA 'not to be a spectator, neutral when Dr Buchman was made a blood farmers are reported to be losing millions and indifferent'. 'Can Canada and the of doUars because of strikes in the grain- United States,' he asked, 'put aside their handling unions of the west coast ports, differences and demonstrate a unity of Bocock told of action he had taken to mind and heart that will become a factor build trust between the farmers and<^i|j for peace in the world? MiUions in Asia Vancouver grain-handlers. He had X look to these two countries.' a senior official of the grain-handlers. Alain Tate, from France, who left 'My one thought,' said Bocock, 'was to Saigon just before the Communist take invite that man to come and spend a over, said,'Unless we wake up in Europe weekend at our farm and meet some of what has happened in Vietnam could the men at the delegate level for the happen to us in the next 10 years. But wheat pools (farmers' co-operatives).' how do we wake people up in western The official had said afterwards that that .k' weekend had transformed his attitude Europe without creating panic? For if ^ -mm you create panic people will commit towards the farmers. themselves to a way which is ineffective, 76-year-old William Wake from to anti-Communism which is a struggle Saskatchewan, who had spent more than to protect the status quo and to defend 60 years farming in the prairies, de- a system which has brought inequality clar^ that the farmers 'are meant to be to the whole earth. What we need to do the backbone of the country'. He said, is to see how to enlist people in a battle 'I started farming with the idea of to eliminate injustice, poverty, dictator making a fortune-a very foolish thing ship and war across the whole earth for a farmer to do. When I met this and to make God's will the dominant group of Moral Re-Armament, I was factor in the life of people and challenged about my motives. I gave lip service to the idea of being a farmer to countries.' Frederick Kfdd, who represents Banff-Cochrane feed the world, but my main aim was to in the Alberta Legislature. An international group North Americans speak from the conference were welcomed to the make as much as I could from every Legislature by the Speaker. They spent an hour bushel I grew, from every pound of Steve Dickinson, from Nebraska, who with the Minister for Indian Affairs and also met was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford Uni the Leader of the Opposition. meat that I sold. When I listened to God,

2 Now World News 28 June 1975 He told me very simply what a farmer's on fresh land. It meant that we needed FROM GENEVA true destiny was. His destiny was to care everybody. The decision made on the for the soil so that it could produce basis of caring for people had turned out TO CAUX abundance for this generation and for to be wise. A COACH-LOAD of fifty delegates to the generations to follow. That meant 'We need unselfishly to help others to the current International Labour farming quite differently to the way I have the dignity of standing on their Organisation conference in Geneva went had been farming. It meant restoring the own feet. Aid is one thing, but that to the MRA conference centre in Caux fibre and the fertility to the soil that extra care that goes beyond that is what at the invitation of a group of European I had robbed it of in my greedy search is really needed.' industrialists and trade unionists. They for a fortune. The last session was enriched by a included representatives of Sudan, 'God told me that my real destiny in blaze of colour as Chief John Snow, Camerouns, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, life was to fight for the spirit in every his wife and family walked to the plat Ivory Coast, India, Malaysia, Chile, country which would enable the food to form to make presentations on behalf Sweden, Germany and Jugoslavia. go through the greed-plugged channels of the Stoney Indians. 'Now we must Issues on the table of the conference work together with the Great Spirit as like admission of the PLO had created our guide to renew our close working a lot of heat over the previous week. with Moral Re-Armament,' said the Welcoming the group Rudolph Huber, chief. 'As Chief of the Stoney tribe I industrialist and Swiss employers' dele want to re-establish the link that was gate to the ILO, said, 'In Geneva we made with Dr Frank Buchman in 1934.' try together - management, labour and In a ceremony to mark this decision government- to improve conditions of Chief John Snow presented Dr Paul work for the whole world but tensions Campbell, from Edmonton, Alberta, one and hatred hinder the progress that we of Dr Buchman's close associates, with a should make. In Caux we can find the pipe of peace and gave him the name forgotten factor which will lead to under 'White Cloud'. standing between people and bring peace.' Dr Campbell told the conference that Swiss Railway Workers' Union North America needed to become 'a National Secretary, Otto Cadegg, added listening people': 'A people who listen that what brought him and men of the way our Indian colleagues spoke: management together was their wish to listen to the Great Spirit in the home, find solutions to industrial problems that in the executive meeting, in the trade satisfied both sides. 'So even though our union council and in the city council, in Mrs Jacqueline Pellerin (left), a community tasks are different the motives can be the Provincial Government and the leader from Trois Rivieres, Quebec, speaks with the same,' he said. Miss Simone Vuignier, a Montreal dressmaker. Federal Cabinet. On that basis we will In the evening a performance of Song from my farm to the hungry mouths that have the birth of a new type of civiliza of Asia was giVen for the delegates and tion, that will replace the materialism needed it.' for many from the local region. Frederik ^vhieh—is—destroying—our society and Two farm managers trom Britain Philips, Chairman of the Supervisory children. Can God's plan for the con joined their Canadian colleagues at the Board of Philips Industries, spoke to tribution of this continent to the rest of conference. Edward Evans from the audience and the cast at the end of the world be anything less than that?' Hereford said that agriculture was the show: 'We of Europe have been Britain's biggest industry in terms of out thinking for centuries that we knew best put and for the last 10 years had had a Camera for the world and it is time that we growth rate of twice as much as the realised that we have a lot to learn from rest of industry in Britain. He had been others. What you have given us with at a Moral Re-Armament meeting when on Calgary your show is making real in our hearts somebody had asked how many present 'THERE ARE more problems in agri that the big thing we Europeans may that their job was really a part of culture created by rocky relationships be give to the world is a warm heart.' .eir revolutionary action. 'I was sup tween people than by rocky soil,' said An Angolan leader, speaking after the porting MRA,' said Evans, 'but I wasn't Albertan farmer John Bocock on performance of the relevance of what he using my job to remake the world. God Calgary Community Television. had seen, said, 'My people as you know said to me then: "You've got to start Bocock, who with his father and are in a struggle and with this moral doing that". Then I had to realize what brothers manages their 1500-acre farm, help our country can come to its full farmers were for, namely to see that the told how he and his brothers had got sovereignty in November this year. With world's food needs were met.' As a result together after he had apologised to his what we have gone through we are con of this, he and three other farmers had brothers for his self-righteousness. Now vinced that through love and the spirit travelled to Africa to see what they as they produce a ton of milk a day on the of brotherhood we can come to a new European farmers could do in Europe farm. world where there will be dignity and that was relevant to Africa's needs. With him on the programme was justice for all. It is in this spirit that I John Sainsbury, who has spent 30 Chief David Crowchild of the Sarcee join in the battle for MRA. years in farming, told how God's guid Indians, He had travelled on a Moral Re- Neville Cooper, a Director of Standard ance in the practical jobs in the farm Armament world journey with the late Telephones Britain, called for a new in 'are essential to creating the right atmos Chief Walking Buffalo of the Stoney dustrial leadership that 'should take phere'. 'We were planning a new dairy Indians. From the time he had first met seriously our task not only to produce project on the farm that I had been MRA, said Chief Crowchild, he had de wealth but to help produce a new managing. It was an improvement in cided that alcohol and tobacco were not society'. He announced to the delegates efficiency and we were able, if we had for him. that holding of a conference from 13 wished, to cut down on our staff. But They were being interviewed by Rabbi August to 7 September in Caux where because everybody on the place was Lewis Ginsburg on his popular 'Camera men of industry could meet and con settled we decided that we should keep on Calgary' programme. 'A revolution sider this and other questions such as everybody on. Within three months, of the heart' was the way Rabbi 'Must oil be a source of conflict or can although we had not known it at the Ginsburg described MRA as he intro it be a means of building constructive time, we had the opportunity to take duced the programme. relationships?'

Now World News 23 June 197S 3 us start now and we will provide an answer for Rhodesia, for this subcon tinent and for the world.' Alec Smith, one of the organisers of AFRICA* the answer continent the Assembly, was interviewed for the South African Broadcasting Corpora tion: 'Over 1,000 Rhodesians have attended the Assembly,' he said, 'These have included cabinet ministers and others from the Government, from all the pohtical parties, and from the km } African National Council. There have been leaders of business and the trades unions. All of them have had the chance to rethink their approach to the problems our nation faces. In this assembly, we have dealt with the change in men which is necessary before political change will work.* Delegate on TV The Rhodesia Herald, Salisbury's daily Sir Cyril Hatty,a former Finance Minister, speaks at the opening session, in the front row (i to r) are the newspaper, carried ten articles on the Bishop of Mashonaiand; Pierre Spoerri, Switzerland: Ds George Daneel, : Alec Smith; the Mayor of Salisbury; Dr Elliott Gabeliah: Mrs Kachidza, wife of Treasurer, ANC: and Joseph conference. 'PM's son apologizes for Masuku, Swaziland, hating South Africans' was its fro:^^ page headline, reporting Alec Smiths apology to the 100 South Africans for Rhodesia having hated them 'more than anybody in his life'. 'Chief frank on why poh- ticians are not frank' was its headline for an interview with Chief Lucas in a new dimension Mangope, Chief Minister of Bophutats- from our correspondent wana Homeland, South Africa. Twelve delegates to the conference were inter 'I HAVE WORKED ON the North East and accept. They are on the attack.' '1 tell my friends every day about viewed for 45 minutes on Rhodesia border, where guerrilla war rages,' a Television at a peak viewing time. black Methodist minister told the MRA MRA,' said one student of the uni The sessions of the conference dealt International Assembly in Salisbury, 'I versity, Doris Ntsanwisi, eldest daughter with the burning topics of Southern have seen black men dead and white men of the Chief Minister of Gazankulu Homeland. 'MRA keeps the stream of Africa, but looked at these topics in a dead. I have longed to find another way. new dimension. From the session on Here I have seen it, MRA has come at history flowing in a God-guided direc tion,' said Billy Marivate, a post 'Food and Famine', conducted by the eleventh hour. I see there was enmity farmers from Kenya, South Africa, New in my heart. But today I went to a white graduate student who brought four neighbour, and for the first time I talked others to the Assembly. Zealand, and Rhodesia, it was clear that to accept Rhodesia's natural role as a with a white person about the things In Angola hundreds have died in inter- faction fighting. In Mozambique, Samora granary for Africa can lift the country that matter most in life,' above the arid political discussion into This minister invited 34 of the dele Machel, leader of Frelimo, has pro gates to speak to 600 people at his claimed his determination to create a a fruitful purpose. There is now in Rhodesia a uni churdi, in an area where 11 people died radically different society when he takes over the government. South West Africa force, black and white, for the right in riots a week earlier. Leading the kind of change - with a determination to group was Fred Small, American negro is being debated heatedly at the United Nations. And in Rhodesia there have solve the difficulties through the fight official of the East Coast dockers. for what is morally right, where each From twenty countries people came been bombings and shootings in several of the African townships. At the open man starts with his own life, and accepts to the Assembly - over 100 of them from the authority of God and His plan for South Africa. Among them were six ing meeting of the conference, when Salisbury's largest auditorium was packed the nation. Or as Sir Cyril Hatty, a from the militant black University of former Minister of Finance and one of the North. 'We in the democracies must to capacity. Dr Elliott Gabeliah, Vice- President of the African National the organisers of the Assembly, ex cease being apologetic and take up the pressed it, 'to bring about a change in offensive,' said the Professor of African Council, warned that conflict here could languages. Prof M E R Mathivha. 'We be a starting point for a world crisis- motivation, to get the new society we want in Rhodesia, and to overflow our need to have the power and the freedom even a third world war. borders.' from bitterness in ourselves to invade 'We have planned all sorts of strategies,' said Dr Gabeliah in another the enemy's strongholds. Let us not be RHODESIA continued from pagel afraid to be angry. We need a new session. 'They have failed. There is only picture. Black alone on a page means one we have not tried-God's strategy. that this was giving hope that decisive nothing. White alone means nothing. We 1 have learnt the science of listening to changes could happen. He added that must have black and white together. We God. He does not speak in theories. It the younger generation of black South Africans were getting impatient and were will fail God if we cannot provide this,' is "do this, don't do that". 1 put a Speaking of the university, he said, challenge to Rhodesians, We have got to demanding an acceleration of this 'We don't have students who sit there come down and be practical men. Let change. Published weekly by The Good Road Ltd, PO Box 9, Tonbrldge, Kent. England. Printed by Tonbridge Printers Ltd. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Articles may be reproduced without reference to the editor, acknowledgment welcomed. Annual subscription {3-momhly introductory rate in brackets): inland £3.50 (£1.00) overseas airmail including Europe £5.50 (£1.50). Regional offices and rates (airmail): Australia MRA Publications, Box 1078J, GPO Melbourne, Vic 3001 S10.50 ($3.00). New Zealand MRA Information Service, PO Box 4198, Christchurch $10.50 (S3.00). South Africa Moral Re-Armament, PO Box 10144, Johannesburg R9.00 (R2.50). 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