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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 5. June 14, 1956

MRA anti-Nazi

MRA anti-Nazi

Himmler's Gestapo, in a lengthy report, denounced MRA for "uncompromisingly taking up a frontal position against National Socialism," in that "they encourage their members to place themselves fully beneath the Christian Cross and to oppose the cross of the [unclear: swaseka] with the Cross of Christ."

In the same way the Communists have recognised the radical challenge of MRA to materialistic philosophies. Radio Moscow described it as "a global ideology, with bridgeheads in every nation, in its final phase of total expansion throughout the world. It has the power to capture radical, revolutionary minds."

It is this fundamental change in human nature that is the distinctive mark of MRA's superiority over other ideologies. Without it, socialism will follow the historical path of all movements which, though starting out with high ideals, have failed to answer the materialism in man.

In the words of Robert Edwards, leading international Socialist and General Secretary of the British Chemical Workers Union: "The process within the Labour movement can be summed up in four words—sacrifice, struggle, success, and then stagnation." This stagnation, he continues, can be attributed to "'failure to deal with moral questions."

MRA meets this need in socialism but it does not stop there. It is not interested in preserving the status quo, but in uprooting self-interest wherever it exists.

For Frank Buchman (who last month has been decorated by three Asian Governments for his work for world peace) recognizes that any philosophy which sets out to change the world without changing the motives of men is too cheap. Only an idea powerful enough to revolutionise human nature is able to unite all men above their differences.