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

Hitler and Communism

Hitler and Communism

Prof. Robert A. Brady (Economics, California) in a study on Fascism, cites this, famous utterance of Rev. Dr. Buchman himself: "Human problems aren't economic. They're moral. And they can't be solved by un-moral measures. . . They could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship. ... I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front-line of defence against the anti-Christ of Communism." (New York World Telegram, 21/8/1936.)

Hitler Fascism was thus not only the logical goal of MRA, but it's proudly proclaimed one.

No wonder MRA gained the support of leading Nazis and Fascists.

In his confessional work "I Paid Hitler" (p. 189), the Nazi steel-king Fritz Thyssen refers to the fact that "Heinrich Himmier was a member of the Oxford Group." (For those who do not remebber the ghoulish things for which this man was responsible Himmler was the chief of Hitler's Gestapo from 1935 to 1945,)

Then there was Prince Konoye, Japanese Premier, involved in the rape of China and, the Pearl Harbour attack. He cabled one MRA convention in the U.S.: "Believing necessity for Moral Re-Armament for solution of world problems, sincerely hope for every success for your noble experiment.