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...Zero. Of the six-week lull in Jap air operations over Guadalcanal, Major General Millard F. Harmon, commander of U.S. Army flyers in the area, said: "It certainly is not going to last. They can reasonably be expected to resume bombing operations with planes improved in armor and armament...
...Buchmanites were seeking draft deferment on the grounds that their Moral Re-Armament organization (successor to Buchman's sin-&-tell Oxford Group) was necessary to the nation's wartime morale. Prompt to disagree were New York Local Board No. 17 and the district Appeals Board. Yet somehow the Buchman men had managed to find friendlier ears on more exalted heads...
Said General Brown: "I understand that national headquarters of Selective Service looks with favor on Moral Re-Armament." He had precedent: Major General Lewis B. Hershey, national draft director, had granted a defense-occupation deferment to an MRA worker in June...
...with the support of capitalist countries, against . . . socialist Germany. >"Whatever pretext our enemies used . . . the fundamental cause was always the same: hatred against a strong German Reich . . . and their universal capitalist interests in war as such. ... All their statesmen are at the same time holders of shares of the armament industries. . . . The blood of their paid mercenaries, of even their own soldiers, produces their dividends...
...first time in history, last week, a certain measure of clinical objectivity was brought to bear on the work of famed Evangelist Frank ("Soul Surgeon") Buchman, founder of the movement variously known as "The Oxford Group," "A First Century Christian Fellowship" and "Moral Re-Armament (MRA)."* An investigate tabulated the results of a questionnaire he had sent 92 men & women who had come into contact with Buchmanism an average of 18 years ago-whose acquaintance with it is a little out of date but who have had the opportunity for a long-range view. The investigator: Walter H. Clark...