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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 4. May 3, 1956

Jew-baiting

Jew-baiting

And there is more evidence than just an aberrated speech of Buchman's to suggest that the MRA movement reciprocated the friendly feelings of these Fascist gentlemen.

Noted American Protestant, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler (editor of The Churchman) reported in one wartime issue of his journal on a Moral Re-Armament dinner which he attended right on Wall Street, where the speeches were "almost entirely devoted to Jew-baiting."

We should not forget that it was, in so many words, Hitler's claim that he had provided an "ideological answer to Communism." Hitler also used the technique of turning aside queries about economic condition, and political [unclear: fpm] with pomp is verbiage about "inspired" and "God-given" "ideologies of renaissance," about "decaying civilisation"' and "impurity," and solutions that are "universal" and "realistic."

MRA's window-dressing is very attractive. But in practice its "ideology of renaissance" means refraining from challenging the status quo, however iniquitous, and preaching claptrap about "regeneration" to the underdog. From there to beating the underdog senseless every time he challenges the status quo, is a short step.

Buchman's movement is a hangover from the horrible thing which crumpled up and died in Berlin and Tokyo just over a decade ago, only after it had slaughtered millions of human beings in its crusade for a "new society."