In Britain Buchman had, after prolonged public pressure, been invited for the first time to speak over the BBC,* though the Director of Religion, F. A. Iremonger, tried to retain some control and deprecated the use of the word 'change',22 to no avail. Lord Salisbury had led the demand, encouraged by Archbishop Lang who was glad he was trying to get the BBC 'to make some sort of reparation for the rather grievous wrong which it did to the Movement by its record of that unfortunate Foyle luncheon'.23 Buchman sent Salisbury the draft of the talk, which he entitled 'Chaos Against God', for his opinion. 'I admired your speech very much,' Salisbury wrote. 'I may say that I think you put the order of spiritual awakening the right way up - first the individual, then the society and last of all the international relation ... I think the phrase, "The dictatorship of the Holy Spirit", is a most noteworthy phrase which will persist. Altogether it is a most striking utterance.'24

(* In a series on 'The Validity of Religious Experience', broadcast on 27 November 1938.)

Archbishop Lang had sent a message of congratulation to Buchman for his sixtieth birthday in June 'on the great work he has been able to achieve in bringing multitudes of human lives in all parts of the world under the transforming Power of Christ'.25 At the beginning of October the Archbishop made a broadcast calling for national repentance and a return to the will of God, in which he referred to the statements calling for moral re-armament: 'All, in one way or another, insist that what is most needed in our personal, civil, industrial and international life is, to quote the letter of the Members of Parliament, "a re-dedication of our people to those elementary virtues of honesty, unselfishness and love which many of us have allowed to take a secondary place; the subjection, as the Foreign Secretary once reminded us, of every part of our being to the service of God". . . The commonplaces of the pulpit may begin to bear fruit if they become the convictions of men in Parliament, in office and in the factory- of "the man in the street". Companies of men and women united in such loyalty to the leadership of Christ in the midst of the nation would .. . gradually leaven the whole lump. Here is the highest and deepest form of national service.'26

That November, Buchman addressed a luncheon at the National Trade Union Club, of which George Light was now Chairman. He sat between Ben Tillett and Tom Mann, the legendary leaders of the 1889 London Dock Strike. Both became firm friends of his, and Tillett later entered the lists when Buchman was criticised in the Daily Telegraph. 27 He said of him, 'I like Frank Buchman. . . He is a great man because he is a lover of his fellow men,' and, during his own last illness, sent Buchman a verbal message: 'Tell him to go on fighting. Give him my love and tell him 1 wish him the best of luck. Tell him: You have a great international movement. Use it. It is the hope of tomorrow. Your movement will bring sanity back to the world.'28

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