Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, Dr. Frank ("Soul Surgeon") Buchman and his bright-eyed disciples of Moral Re-Armament concentrated on the U.S. Last spring they bounced back across the Atlantic, to set about "changing" Europe (TIME, May 13) with their "ABSOLUTE HONESTY, ABSOLUTE PURITY, ABSOLUTE UNSELFISHNESS AND ABSOLUTE LOVE...
...Entering the lobby I noticed displays of two books, That Man Frank Buchman and Ideas Have Legs, both by one Peter Howard. Near by were posted photographs of scenes from Oxford propaganda plays. One showed a merry group of people standing beside an immense cardboard barometer. They were registering CHANGE, the magic word of M.R.A. The head of the M.R.A. ten-man press corps came forward to meet me-a tall, eager, black-browed Englishman, Author Howard himself...
...Howard proudly insisted that this movement stands 'above party, class, race, or viewpoint'. . . . He sounded the usual warning against Communism. The M.R.A. classless society is the answer to the class struggle, he said; Communists see this, and that is why they malign the movement. ... I asked whether Buchman hadn't endorsed Hitler. Howard admitted that he once, naively, had endorsed the German Führer. But he emphasized M.R.A.'s record during the resistance and told me of a secret Gestapo document, 126 pages long, which condemns M.R.A. as being 'a Christian garment to world...
...Frank Buchman, sexagenarian Oxford Group leader who returned to England last spring after seven years' absence, was now reported sitting on an Alp. The perch: Switzerland's sky-high Caux. The shelter: a former luxury hotel. Buchmanites had bought it and were aswarm there for a big postwar drive. Reported one of them happily: "The people of the neighborhood seem pleased...
Asked where the money for this and other ventures came from, Buchman's well-dressed followers answered: "Where God guides, the Lord provides...