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...impossible to trace all the large MRA contributions, but the organization is property rich. It was given a conference center in Caux, Switzerland, purchased in the 1940's for more than $840,000 and London, facilities in Berkeley Square worth $560,000. MRA also owns the Westminster Theatre in London, which cost $400,000 (Washington Post 4-9-61) and the $250,000 Dellwood estate in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., given to the movement in 1950 by Mrs. John Henry Hammond of the Vanderbilt and Sloane families (New York Times 1-5-50). There are also reports of numerous donations...
There is more. A book called Mau Mau Detainee written by Josiah Mwangi Kariuki and published by Penguin, discusses the role MRA played in the Kenya detention camps...
...Kariuki, a member of the Kenya Parliament, is a close associate of Jomo Kenyatta, who is one of MRA's admirers according to the movement's literature...
...MRA also does not get long with trade unions as well as it says it does. Peter Howard, one of the two great MRA prophets, wrote: "We stand strongly in favor of trade unionism ... I rejoice at the prosperity of the American unions. I thank God for the conditions you have achieved. I know the struggle you have had." MRA claims to have actively participated in those struggles. A full-page advertisement in the New York Times (10-11-59) credits the organization with settling the London dock strike of 1949, the airline strike...
...unions don't quite see it that way. A report of the Executive Board of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in September, 1953, said that evidence showed MRA "interference in trade union activities ... even to the extent of trying to found 'yellow' unions"... In all cases where the 'trade union achievements' of MRA were examined more closely, they were found to be half-truths of fabricated 'successes.'" Three years later the ICFTU passed a resolution bluntly "advising trade unionists, in view of the continued interference of MRA in industrial matters to sever all connections with the movement...