Moral rearmament

The file contains reports and newspaper articles regarding the Moral Re-Armament (MRA), founded by Dr. Buchman in 1938. The report covers the years of 1926 till 1945 and explains briefly how Dr. Buchman established the organisation and how he popularized it all over the world. The report also includes newspaper quotations from different years, regarding the organisation and its ideas. MRA was an international moral and spiritual movement that, in 1938, developed from American minister Frank Buchman's Oxford Group. On May 29th 1938, at the East Town Hall in Britain, where Dr. Buchman launched his mass campaign to promote the ideas of MRA and "to sent the message of Moral Re-Armament to the world generation: To keep the peace and make it permanent; to make the wealth and work of the world available to all and for the exploitation of none; and with peace and prosperity as our servants and not our masters, to build a new world, create a new culture and change the age of gold into the Golden Age. The new civilisation of our dreams will come not by our own wisdom but by obedient co-operation with God in the task of Moral Re-Armament." Dr. Buchman adresses with his ideas and speeches everyone, as it is written in the report: "He calles on godless dictators as well as the ordinary man to change and bring their nations the true liberty of God-controll." But there have been also criticism on Dr. Buchman, that he sympathize with Hitler. Therefore Moral Re-Armament has always been a controversial organization, resulting from its strident anti-Communist positions as well as from Buchman's open admiration of Hitler.