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Rey, a frequent visitor to Caux, was congratulating Buchman on various achievements which he had observed and attributed to his influence. 'You must feel very proud of all this,' he said.8

'I don't feel that way at all,' Buchman replied. 'I have had nothing to do with it. God does everything. I only obey and do what He says.'

It was a reassertion of his earlier estimate of his life, 'I have been wonderfully led to those who were ready.'

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to three authors who have allowed me to quote from their books at length.

Irving Harris permitted me to quote his account of the first meeting between Buchman and Sam Shoemaker from his biography of Shoemaker, The Breeze of the Spirit (Seabury, 1978).

Katherine Makower in Follow My Leader (Kingsway, 1984) enlightened me further about the visit of two Cambridge men, Murray Webb-Peploe and Godfrey Buston, to America with Buchman in 1921.

In the chapters devoted to Japan and her people, I have relied greatly on unpublished memoirs and the recent book Japan’s Decisive Decade by Basil Entwistle. Professor Ezra F. Vogel, Chairman of the Council on East Asian Studies at Harvard University, writes: ‘Basil Entwistle was in an unusual position in the early post World War II period to come into contact with the people in Japan who were to emerge as the leaders in the economy and in the government directing the Japanese miracle … He has written an extremely careful, precise, informative and inspirational account of his experiences. For those of us who have read about these great leaders at a distance, it is a fascinating history.’

I would like also to thank the many other authors whom I have quoted more briefly, all of whom are acknowledged in the Source References.

I am also grateful to the staffs of the libraries mentioned in the Preface, to whom I would add the libraries of Oslo and Uppsala Universities.

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