Word: mra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention this month, in Hollywood...
...United States most successfully in the late Thirties now bids for big stakes, proclaiming that it offers "the answering ideology to Communism." Last Monday and Tuesday nights' overflow crowds of fashionable gentry at the Colonial Theatre watched Boston's free-of-charge performances of "The Good Road," MRA's touring propaganda spokesman in musical revue guise...
...MRA thesis throughout the world follows simple lines: society can survive only if each individual catches fire with the unselfish desire to live by standards of "absolute purity, absolute honesty, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love." Within the movement itself this involves "quiet times" in the Quaker manner providing for communion with God. To the world crisis this spells an attitude sweeping out at a nebulous "materialism" which is today's embodiment of the bad in human nature...
Although the content of the show strikes frequent depths of trite polemic, the zealousness of the 300-odd performers, many traveling over the globe for MRA, more than lends an excitement sufficient in itself to justify the expenditure of an evening and to pose the pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents...
...Driberg, cocky Daily Express columnist (pen name: William Hickey) and leftist M.P., was excited too. Buchman, he protested in the House of Commons, was nothing but a "soapy racketeer who never repudiated his admiration for Hitler and Himmler." Before the war his MRA (Moral Re-Armament) had been surrounded by an odor other than that of sanctity. Buchman's preoccupation with "key men" was believed to have made Hitler desirable in his eyes...