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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Dr. Frank Buchman, founder of Moral Rearmament, received the Philippines Legion of Honor gold medal in London from Senator Roseller T. Lim for President Magsaysay, recognizing his work promoting peace, unity, and anti-communist ideology. Attended by 700 from 37 nations.
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LONDON - (INS) - Dr. Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Rearmament Movement, was awarded Sunday the order of the Philippines Legion of Honor with gold medal.
The presentation was made in London by Philippines' Senator Roseller T. Lim, acting in behalf of President Ramon Magsaysay.
An audience of 700 persons from 37 nations attended the presentation ceremony.
Lim read the official citation, stating the award was granted "in recognition of the services he has rendered in creating and developing an atmosphere conducive to peace and unity among individuals and groups of different races and creeds."
The citation added that Dr. Buchman, in promotion of MRA, "has initiated a revolutionary ideology based on intangible but nevertheless practical virtues destined to counteract the destructive doctrines of ugly materialism and insidious Communism which threaten to undermine the foundations of democracy and the ideals of human free creeds."
The citations noted that Dr. Buchman "as an American, has kept alive the basic values of cooperation and altruism upon which was founded the greatness and nobility of the United States of America."
It concluded: "For all this and more, he justly and fully deserves the honor of a leader of mankind."
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Dr. Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Rearmament Movement, was awarded the order of the Philippines Legion of Honor with gold medal in London by Philippines' Senator Roseller T. Lim on behalf of President Ramon Magsaysay. An audience of 700 persons from 37 nations attended the presentation ceremony. Lim read the official citation recognizing Buchman's services in creating peace and unity among different races and creeds, promoting MRA's ideology against materialism and Communism, and upholding American values of cooperation and altruism.