For many the war years were enough adventure to last a lifetime.

THE OREGONIAN
The following article appeared in The Oregonian on May 18, 2005 under the headline "Words of gratitude for U.S. care of British children in wartime"
by Michael Henderson:

On the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, a tribute to the greatness of those who built the subsequent peace.

From People Building Peace II - Successful Stories of Civil Society (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2005)Philippe Mottu recalls the start. "On the day he arrived in Caux in July 1946, Buchman confronted us with a challenge. After meeting all those who had worked so devotedly to get Mountain House ready, he suddenly asked: 'Where are the Germans?' And he added: 'Some of you think that Germany has got to change; and that is true. But you will never be able to rebuild Europe without Germany.'"

For five years Bishop Malkhaz Songulashvili and his church had been the focus of attacks led by a defrocked Orthodox priest.

In May 1937 the largest aircraft ever built, the dirigible Hindenburg, collapsed slowly in flames as it was mooring at Lakehurst, NJ. The radio commentator, observing the people below trying to run for their lives, was so moved the only words he could stammer out at one moment were ‘Oh, the humanity’. Thirty-five people died in the flames.

Thousands of American families—and Canadian families too—offered to take in British children for the duration of the war.

One of the most important issues facing the world could be how the Christian and Muslim worlds can live and work together without compromising the claims of their faith. I notice that the Archbishop of Canterbury is wrestling with this question.

Bishop Malkhaz Songulashvili of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia has taken an extraordinary and bold step that is reverberating round his country. It addresses a vital issue, the relations between the churches in his country threatened with division.

A child’s perspective is often unexpected, occasionally amusing, sometimes challenging.