From the back page:
What is the truth about the Oxford Group?
Is all that appears about them in the newspapers true?
Why were they attacked by The Blackshirt?
Why were they attacked in the Daily Worker?
And where do they get the money from, anyway?
What manner of a man is Frank Buchman. And what did he really say?
What does Moral Re-Armament mean for Britain at war? What is it likely to mean after victory is won?
In Innocent Men, Peter Howard, political journalist who captained England at Rugby football, gives the answers which he and his wife, Doris Metaxa, the tennis star, have found to these and other questions.
He tells what the Group has brought to two people, young, successful and happily married.
He tells of the hope they have discovered for a new and better world.
From the inside jacket:
Peter Howard, journalist, set out to get a scoop. On the gossip of Fleet Street he expected to denounce a ring of doubtful characters in London. And he found – Innocent Men!
He found religious persecution. In war-time Britain he found a group of patriotic men and women, thousands of them in the Services, who are being black-guarded, attacked, misrepresented. Howard got at the truth. He found – Innocent Men!
He brought to his task a sceptical eye. ”My whole business for years,” he says, ”has been to drag the truth out of politicians reluctant to disclose it. I never begin an interview without expecting an attempt to put something over on me. I am on the look out.”
Another thing happened.
Peter Howard set out to investigate – and was investigated. The scoop-hunt turned into an adventure which changed his whole way of life. Something more exciting than his old game of playing for England at Rugby football.
He found a programme for total defence well in its stride in Britain and America.
He found a new Britain in the making.
He found the first real prospect that, after all the blood and tears of this war are ended, a world different and better can be built.
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