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Hubbard with his friend Ray Kemp on a two-day trip to Ireland
during which he hoped to solve the 'Irish problem'.
At the end of March 1956, Ray Kemp accompanied Hubbard on a trip to Dublin. 'He wanted to see if
there was something he could do for Ireland,' Kemp explained. 'He felt that Ireland's troubles were
based on the fact that it was a bit like a Third World nation and had never been able to apply the
skills of its people. We were there for two or three days and he spent the whole time talking to
people. We'd be walking down the street and all of a sudden he wasn't there. I'd look back and see
him deep in conversation with someone, asking them if they had a job, what their skills were,
things like that. Believe it or not, he'd actually run a little process on them there and then and they'd
feel better and he'd walk away. His idea was to open a Personal Efficiency Foundation in Dublin to
teach people how to apply whatever skills they had got, but I don't think anything ever came of it.'
Back in London, Hubbard applied himself to proselytizing for his fledgling church. Never short of
ideas, he told Kemp to try putting an advertisement in the London evening newspapers with a
telephone number and the offer, 'I will talk to anyone about anything.' It instantly tapped the deep
well of loneliness which exists in every big city and generated an extraordinary response. 'We were
inundated with calls,' said Kemp. 'Everyone from potential suicides to a girl who couldn't decide
which of three men to marry.'