[<<The>> Moral Re-Armament and its important advocates]

The file contains newspaper articles regarding the Moral Re-Armament (MRA) and its important advocates, published in 1950 in France. The MRA was founded by Dr. Buchman in 1938. His idea was that democracy should be based on a new model, which was drawn by God and had to be realized by all humankind. He felt that after the war in Germany the people needed a new aim for their personal life. In his point of view the Germans needed more than just life, work and eat, they needed a new ideologie. Julian Huxleg, Sir Roy Pinset and Evert Kupers supported Buchmans idea to create and implement a new moral and spiritual movement, which could unite Catholics, Jews and Protestants, Hindi, Muslims, Buddhists and Confucianists. Werner Schöllgen, a German Roman Catholic professor of theology, argues that it is important to see how people are living and what they desire. The idea of a new way of living, without lecturing the people, but feed their desire and help them find a new approach through MRA, induced him to join the movement. Greta Hennemann wrote a anticle about the spreading of MRA in Germany in 1950. The organization speaded its idea by using projects like theater plays and speeches. Paul Kurowski underlinded the importance of the theater plays as a tool to show the audience the goals of MRA. The German news reported mostly very positive about the MRA movement but certainly also criticism emerged in the media. The movement would be just an illusion and its political ideas were naive, since they appeared to assume that moral awakening would solve "social problems". Nevertheless in the following years the MRA was raising and spreading globaly.