MRA: Coexistence through Apology

All those who are interested in saving the world from the World-Savers will do well to keep an eye on the activities of Moral Re-Armament (MRA), formerly known as the Oxford Group. And the man upon whom this scrutiny should center is a fortyish, ascetic looking British journalist and playwright named Peter Howard, who seems destined to overshadow as Supreme Prophet (if he has not already done so) the aging founder of this “militant, revolutionary ideology,” Dr. Frank Buchman.

The propaganda plays written by this emerging modern Messiah have increasingly vilified the West and all it stands for, while at the same time they have praised Communism with faint damns. He castigates the entire West for its smoking, drinking and immorality; but he excuses the Communists for such lesser foibles as treaty-breaking, police tyranny and slave labor. The West’s worst sin against humanity, according to Mr. Howard, is dat ole Débil “materialism” (read: “capitalism”). But Communism’s materialism, as evinced by an ambition to loot the free world, is, he indicates, eminently justifiable.

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All those who are interested in saving the world from the World-Savers will do well to keep an eye on the activities of Moral Re-Armament (MRA), formerly known as the Oxford Group. And the man upon whom this scrutiny should center is a fortyish, ascetic looking British journalist and playwright named Peter Howard, who seems destined to overshadow as Supreme Prophet (if he has not already done so) the aging founder of this “militant, revolutionary ideology,” Dr. Frank Buchman.

The propaganda plays written by this emerging modern Messiah have increasingly vilified the West and all it stands for, while at the same time they have praised Communism with faint damns. He castigates the entire West for its smoking, drinking and immorality; but he excuses the Communists for such lesser foibles as treaty-breaking, police tyranny and slave labor. The West’s worst sin against humanity, according to Mr. Howard, is dat ole Débil “materialism” (read: “capitalism”). But Communism’s materialism, as evinced by an ambition to loot the free world, is, he indicates, eminently justifiable.