Recrudescent Moral Disarmament

You will have observed in the newspapers, gentle reader, large advertisements by that equivocal organization called Moral Rearmament, with its American headquarters at Mackinac Island. A girl college student replied to one of these advertisements—in all innocence. Two days later, three comely young men descended upon her house, proselytizing; and it was all the young lady’s parents could manage to drive them away, some hours later. Moral Rearmament—now directed by Mr. Peter Howard, formerly a gay blade in London—is, of course, the creation of the late Frank Buchman. Once upon a time it called itself “the Oxford Group.” When Buchman came to his end, not long ago, obituaries were mordant, either side of the Atlantic—but perhaps not mordant enough.

Disarming the Duchess

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You will have observed in the newspapers, gentle reader, large advertisements by that equivocal organization called Moral Rearmament, with its American headquarters at Mackinac Island. A girl college student replied to one of these advertisements—in all innocence. Two days later, three comely young men descended upon her house, proselytizing; and it was all the young lady’s parents could manage to drive them away, some hours later. Moral Rearmament—now directed by Mr. Peter Howard, formerly a gay blade in London—is, of course, the creation of the late Frank Buchman. Once upon a time it called itself “the Oxford Group.” When Buchman came to his end, not long ago, obituaries were mordant, either side of the Atlantic—but perhaps not mordant enough.

Disarming the Duchess