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THE DAY the hydrogen bomb
explosion was announced, I
happened to go to church. I say
“happened” “because a television
program and a radio broadcast
both coming on a Sunday ordi
narily make it hard for me to go
to church.
But the telecast is being switched
to Wednesday, so I surprised Mrs.
P by taking her to church, where
I listened to Rev. John R. An
schut? preach a sermon on prayer.
Knéwing that the hydrogen bomb
announcement was due to be made
later that day or the next morning,
I'did quite a bit of thinking about
prayer, and the fact that maybe
if we had relied more on prayer
and the things that go with prayer,
we wouldn’t be in the predicament
of building bomb shelters and
going underground for fear of ex
plosions that could burn up our
civiiization. »
Over at the Alexandria, Va.,
church where George Washington
used to worship, Rev. O. V. T.
Chamberlain chose as his closing
hymn: “The day thou gavest,
Lord, is ended.’”
That expressed some thoughts
of mine, too.
For the day the Lord gave us
could very well be ended if we and
the Russians ever get to trading
hydrogen bomb blows across the
Arctic.
Bombs vs. Ideas
On the other hand, T also figured
that bombs never killed an idea,
and our greatest natural resource
is not plutonium or tritium, but
our moral and spiritual strength.
Religion and. communism can
not survive together. But one
trouble is that religion has got
to mean more than a refuge from
ruthless force. It must be a pat
tern for life, not a ritual for one
hour on Sunday.
Another trouble is that men of
all faiths and of little faith have
been seeking ideas to defeat com
munism, when right around the
corner the best idea of all is being
neglected — The Sermon On The
Mount, given us 2,000 years ago
as a daily guide for living with
each other ] :
The big trouble, of course, is
to . get that daily guide adopted
not only here, but also behind an
iron curtain where religion is
barred and where we can’t even
mail a package.
“naking Iran Curtain
* have tried, in what feeble
.ays I e‘:ould, to show that the
iron curtain was not as impene
trable as it’s supposed to be. I once
traveled along it from Turkey to
Berlin showing up its loopholes;
and in cooperation with the Cru
sade for Freedom I helped float
11,000,000 leaflets via balloons into
Czechoslovakia and Poland.
These at best were: puny efforts,
theugh they showed, from the re
action on the other side of the
iron curtain, how eagerly its peo
ple welcome contact with us.
Today. however, we have two
opportunities which need not be
puny. First we have a new and
powerful hydrogen bomb, thereby
giving us tremendous bargaining
power to break down the artificial
barriers preventing peace.
Second, we have a new presi
dent. He is a man of great pres
tige, known throughout the world
and in Russia. And he has what
Franklin Roosevelt had, a flair for
dramatics, the ability to win peo
ple, to capture their imagination.
Whether you agree with him po
litically or not, Eisenhower is and
can be an international salesman.
And that’s what’s needed today in
selling the world new instruments
for peace.
It is always possible at the be
ginning of a new administration
to form important, new and dyna
mic policies.
That’s because outgoing leaders
become jaded and get in a rut.
Our present outgoing leaders have
put across some milestones
against commu#fism for which his
torians will give them great credit.
But the sheen is off these policies
now. They are shopworn and lack
luster. They still form a firm
foundation on which to build for
prosperity and pcace. And on them
a new administration can build
bigger things—:{ it has courage
and imaginaticn. ;
Seldom in history has a new
president come into office when
the peoples of the world has
reached a lower ebb of despon
dency, when the -“anzer of total
war was potentially greater, and
when there was placed in the new
president’s hands greater bargain
ing power—the hydrogen bomb.
In another year that bargaining
power may be gone. The Kremlin
by then may have the H-bomb.
But until then a new leader with
courage, imagination. cenviction
has a heaven-sent opportunity to
reopen the Baruch plan for the
control of atomic energy, and
simultaneously open up the iron
curtain to American truth, culture.
and the American people.
If the latter can be done. th
Korean war and all kindred prob
lems will automatically .olv:
themselves.
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