Religion: MRA Week

"Moral Re-Armament is magnificent and magnetic. It must be universal and unanimous."—Richards Vidmer, New York Herald Tribune.

Thus read a blurb on a leaflet distributed last week in Manhattan. The leaflet was designed to publicize MRA Week, which ended on Sunday with a big Citizens' Meeting in Madison Square Garden. On its face, the blurb looked like an endorsement of the doctrines of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, which in Europe have borne the label MRA since last summer (TIME, Sept. 19).

Actually "Dick" Vidmer, Herald Tribune sportswriter, had reported how 34...

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