Newspaper articles about Moral Re-Armament
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The file contains several newspapers articles regarding the Moral Re-Armament (MRA), founded by Dr. Buchman in 1938. The articles cover the years of 1923 till 1952 and are written in English, German and French. Most of the articles discribe the situation and the distribution of MRA in England, moreover the distribution of the MRA around the world, like Japan, has been discussed. MRA was an international moral and spiritual movement that, in 1938, developed from American minister Frank Buchman's Oxford Group. But there have been also criticism on Dr. Buchman, that he sympathize with Hitler. Therefore Moral Re-Armament has always been a controversial organization, resulting from its strident anti-Communist positions as well as from Buchman's open admiration of Hitler. Furthermore other counterpart organization, as well as Communist Party mainly also in Great Britain have been discussed. Also voices of the British people and the government are published.
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Photocopies of press-cuttings and announcements (collected by J.R. Spector)
Buchmanism, also known as the Oxford movement and Moral Re-Armament
Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
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People
- Moral Re-armament (Organization)
- Buchman, Frank, 1878-1961
Subjects
- Religion and culture
- Press and politics--United Kingdom--History--20th century.
- Right and left (Political science)--Great Britain--History--20th century.