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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 6. April 10, 1974

Moral invasion

Moral invasion

Dear Sir,

I refer to your article, "Christian Anti-Communism" of March 27, where Moral Re-Armament was criticised. I make the following points.

1) MRA is not making its first appearance in the University. In September 1970, a Moral Re-Armament group was invited to speak in the University by the then President of VUWSA. At a later occasion Conrad Hunte, West Indian cricketer and spokesman for MRA, addressed another University meeting.

2) Your inference that MRA is financed by US bankers is incorrect. It is financed by ordinary people like myself, (and by the writer of the article "Christian Anti-Communism", if he so desires).

3) As an Asian, I resent the paternalistic reference that MRA is "designed for the Oriental market". The fact is that the impetus for moral re-armament comes equally from Asia as from the West.

MRA is an idea that both East and West can, and need, to take on together. In my experience, MRA does unite people of different creeds, races and backgrounds in bringing about the needed changes in the world.

The above points are just some of the answers to the inaccuracies in your article. Could we hope for a little more fact and a little less bias in the future?

P. Aron