Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Further Comments on Bohn's Defense of Moral Re-Armament I read with great interest William E. Bohn's column, "Moral Re-Armament and Its Critics" [The New Leader, February 151. As a...
...In Germany Unmasked, Robert Dell wrote that the Buchmanites who visited Germany before the war "became enthusiastic Hitlerites, and two of them afterward said that Germany was the only country where they had found a real Christian spirit...
...Although he quotes what "MRA unionists from Germany" have to say, he should also have quoted non-MRA unionists...
...River Edge, N. J. James H. Doherty Let me take this opportunity to congratulate you on the superb quality of your journal...
...No one has yet explained what the MRA creed of the "Four Absolutes--Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness and Love" actually means...
...Over McCarthy The McCarthy stories, priceless to the Kremlin, are mainly organized hysteria...
...Financially the path of The New Leader will probably always be a difficult one, for you know no master save truth and your conscience...
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...Thus, I can see in the ideas of Frank Buchman and Moral Re-Armament a fulfilment of the idea that the world can be different, a place of social justice where brotherhood is an actuality and not just a vague dream...
...I was the business representative in charge of the National Airlines strike when it first began in 1948...
...Melbourne Frank G. Cooney For ten years, I was business representative of the International Association of Machinists on Eastern Air Lines property and am now back in the shops as a mechanic...
...I don't understand why Mr...
...Sidney Hook's articles are wonderful...
...New York City Norman Grossman Although I sometimes disagree very heartily with some articles published by The New Leader, I still think that, in these times of hysteria and conformism, every liberal paper should get the help of all liberal-minded and anti-totalitarian people who cherish the American liberties and traditions...
...This is a rare virtue today...
...In 1952, I attended the Asian Assembly for Moral Re-Armament in Colombo, where I met and worked with people of many countries and creeds...
...New York City William Ross More Readers Respond to 'New Leader' Fund Drive The voice of The New Leader must never be silenced, especially during the time of hysteria and suspicion through which we are now passing...
...I have been a trade-unionist for the past thirteen years and have dedicated my life to the principles of a free, democratic trade-union movement...
...Elliott Sachs I cannot afford the enclosed contribution very well, but I hope it serves a useful purpose...
...Aroused by MRA's challenge that the ordinary man has a part in remaking the world, I decided to do what I could within the scope of the trade-union movement...
...Thanks to William E. Bohn for telling the world what he thinks...
...New York City Manfred George Editor, "Aufbau" My husband and I feel the $5 we spend for The New Leader is our most sensible annual purchase...
...I am sure that this sort of inspired democracy will spread faster than anything the world has ever seen, for it meets the deepest needs of all men...
...Bohn's concluding remark that "perhaps it will be in the cementing of East and West that [MRA] will perform [its] most important service...
...It remains one of the ever-dwindling few magazines which can brilliantly attack the intellectual deceit of McCarthy and his ilk and also cast an unapologetic and wary eye upon the excesses of the Left...
...The benefits which have accrued to the employes through the changes which MRA wrought in the management have been little short of unbelievable...
...As a trade-unionist and a former vice-president of the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employes Association (Victorian Branch), I would like to record my appreciation of the article and add a personal note...
...No denial has yet been made of Hannen Swaffer's charge that Frank Buchman, MRA's founder, said: "I thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler," and that he also told ex-MP Kenneth Lindsay: "Heinrich Himmler is a great lad...
...My motive is a selfish one, since I've never read a better magazine of its kind than The New Leader and would hate being deprived of it...
...Brierley Hill, England Kenneth V. Russell Contends Press Breeds 'Hysteria...
...For MRA has incurred the wrath of the West German unions, which contend that MRA representatives have used the names of trade-unionists without permission and generally employed methods to spread their ideas that "are in direct contradiction to their declared aims...
...The application of MRA principles has helped me to see where these forces are at work in my own life and then to change...
...If Hook had undertaken to say that atomic scientists are politically as "arrogant" as they are "ignorant," he would have had to produce some proof...
...In these days of nascent conformism and convulsive fear, the informed bit of open mindedness that you sustain comes to me as a refreshing sort of heterodoxy...
...Hook thinks an unwarranted charge of "treachery" leveled against the atomic scientists "makes it more difficult for us to criticize what we may regard as the still lingering illusions and errors of atomic scientists...
...New York City G. Wachsner...
...But by this system of partial vindication, by appearing to be the defender rather than the accuser, he leaves the impression that atomic scientists as a group are at least fellow-travelers...
...The best papers are giving these stories unusual space for circulation purposes...
...I mean that class war, personal rivalries and indulgent living sabotage a great deal of our efforts...
...We are cover-to-cover readers, anyway...
...What easier way is there to make a lesser charge stick than to first dispose of a major one and then leave the minor one as a more or less harmless residue...
...The most serious threat to our endeavors as trade-unionists comes not from without but from within...
...guard it well...
...We should like to send you an additional $5 at this time...
...Therefore, I can heartily endorse Dr...
...If the above quotes are accurate, that is understandable...
...Is this ethics or is it casuistry...
...The IAM on that line is one of the strongest on any airline property in the world, and many of the union's leaders are dedicated to the principles of MRA...
...Miami Edgar Chambers William E. Bohn's column on Moral Re-Armament is most onesided...
...Deansboro, N. Y. Ann MacLeod Resents Hook's Criticisms Of Atomic Scientists I am writing in reference to Sidney Hook's article, "The Techniques of Controversy" [The New Leader, March 8...
Vol. 37 • March 1954 • No. 12
