Signed - That Man Frank Buchman by Peter Howard

That Man Frank Buchman by Peter Howard

Published in 1946 by Blandford Press LTD in London.

This book was written by Peter Howard who was a leader of Moral Re-Armament. This is a first printing from June 1946.

The book was inscribed and gifted to a Doctor in Niagara Falls in January 1947. Below the inscription on the first page of the book, a list of Moral Re-Armament members signed their names. “Bunny Austin” is one of the members that signed and gifted this book.

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“Democracy," writes Peter Howard, “is in greater danger today than in 1939. Then we saw the danger. Today many of us are blind to it. Mighty, malignant, anti-democratic ideas, united through the fabric of every nation, are still on the march to seize control."

Howard believes that democracy needs an inspired ideology to answer totalitarian creeds of every kind. Without it, democracy is like a crab without a shell-easy meat and tempting bait for the evil birds of prey which seek to devour it.

In That Man Frank Buchman Howard writes of the man who " is doing on a world scale for democracy what the Black and Red revolutionaries are trying to do for dictator-ship-he is setting freedom on the march again with a fighting force and fighting plan to occupy the hearts, heads and lives of all men and all nations."

That Man Frank Buchman is a book, also, about people, the men and women of sixty nations who make up the rising world force of Moral Re-Armament-the story told with the human insight, humour and force which have made Howard's last four books run to 750,000 copies. He shows how the ideology of democracy works for a Foreign Minister, a working miner, editors, Trade Union leaders, returning service men and many others. As he takes us from battlefront to battlefront in the global war of ideas, he illuminates the issues facing Westminster and the White House, the delegates of UNO and the millions of India, industry in Britain and America, and the peoples of Liberated Europe.

Through it all, ever-present, ever unobtrusive, moves the figure of Frank Buchman, the best-known unknown man of the age.

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About Bunny Austin:

Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin born August 26, 1906 and passed away August 26, 2000 was an English professional tennis player and prominent member of the Oxford Group(Moral Re-Armament) that became close with the founder Frank Buchman.

He married actress Phyllis Konstam in 1931, after meeting her in 1929 on a transatlantic liner while travelling for the US Open, and together they were one of the celebrity couples of the age. Austin played tennis with Charlie Chaplin, was a friend of Daphne du Maurier, Ronald Colman, and Harold Lloyd, and met both Queen Mary and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In 1933, concerned by increasing threats of a renewal of European, and indeed wider, war, Austin became involved in the Oxford Group, later Moral Re-Armament, speaking on public platforms and writing press articles. He and Fred Perry were the only players to raise their voice, in a letter to The Times, against the Nazi ban on Jews joining the German team for the Davis Cup. According to Austin's friend Peter Ustinov, Austin was "disgracefully ostracised by the All-England Club because he was a conscientious objector". In fact, soon after British declaration of the Second World War, before the question whether he might register as an objector arose, he accepted an invitation from Frank Buchman, Oxford Group founder, for a speaking tour of the US, and went, with the apparently overt approval of the British government. In 1943, with the extension of US conscription to Allied resident citizens, he was drafted into the US Army Air Force, but a diagnosis of Gilbert's Syndrome (periodic malfunction of the liver) precluded him from combat service, and he was discharged in 1945. The syndrome explained his occasional and sudden fatigue on the court.

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This book is in excellent condition with no writing or markings in the book. There is a library card pocket attached to the title page. The book comes with an original dust jacket.