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...alone either. "We heard of others who had been similarly used. Even the United States Government!" That experience is a thorny one that everyone involved wants to forget. It is the last documented evidence of MRA receiving governments funds and it happened in 1955. An English journalist named Tom Driberg recounts the episode in his well-documented book, The Mystery of Moral Re-Armament...
...play itself was sharply criti- cized. (One scene in the play shows a "typical" democratic election candidate stuffing a ballot box.) Sherman Adams, Driberg reports said it might do serious damage to the cause of democracy in Asia. Ambassadors cabled protests, and John Foster Dulles notified embassies that MRA had no official standing. Vice-President Nixon tried to get the tour stopped...
...American taxpayers paid $135,000 to send the play around the world. MRA paid $124,930, according to a facsimile check printed in one of their books. Talbott was later forced to resign as Air Force Secretary and--according to Driberg--the MRA affair played no small role in Eisenhower's decision to oust...
Harold Wilson's apparent turnabout on the subject of total nationalization, however, struck doctrinaire socialists as anything but fair play. Furious at the concession offered Wyatt, three militant Labor left-wingers, Ian Mikardo, Michael Foot and Tom Driberg, called for an urgent party meeting to "get some clarification" on the real intentions of Harold Wilson...
...once unpopular Tory anti-inflationary measures began building a new economic stability, the Macmillan government had bounced back to the top of the opinion polls. Laborites sensed that they might be headed not for office but for a third straight electoral defeat. Opening the conference, Party Chairman Tom Driberg conceded: "Our principles and policies have not yet had the impact on public opinion in Britain that they must have if we are to win the election...