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...Frank Buchman (Sun. II a. m. MBS). Oxford Group's founder and leader speaks by short wave from London on "Moral Rearmament...
Decade ago the followers of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, commonly called ''Buchmanites," were mostly youngsters at the age of puberty who were obsessed, or were told that they ought to be obsessed, with personal, private sin. Prime Buchmanite teaching was that such sin could be purged by confession. Today the high command of Buchmanism is more mature, the movement calls itself the Oxford Group,* and its policies have been weaned from...
...Buchmanite notion that dictators are fine fellows who simply need a little Buchmanite guidance to become good Buchmanites-and incidentally order their obedient millions to do likewise. Last week in London, world headquarters of the Group, and in Switzerland, where Buchmanites have held many an international gathering, Dr. Buchman's current strategy bore newsworthy results...
...Before sailing, Dr. Buchman announced that 45 Berkeley Square, London, a substantial house of historical interest, is being acquired by friends of the Oxford Group from many countries for use as a world center of this rapidly growing movement...
Thus last week, with the pomp of a court circular, did Buchmanism-heretofore quartered in Brown's Hotel, London - announce the acquisition of famed 18th Century Lord Clive's 34-room house in swankest Mayfair. Minimum price in the neighborhood: $50,000. Dr. Buchman, born in unswank Pennsburg, Pa., will make Berkeley Square his home...