Peter Howard (journalist)

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Peter Howard (died 1965) was a British journalist, playwright, and the head of the spiritual movement Moral Re-Armament from 1961 to 1965.

An Oxford graduate and journalist, Howard captained the All-England rugby team while working with the British right-wing political figure Oswald Mosley. Later, he became a political correspondent and investigative reporter for the London Daily Express. He was assigned by Lord Beaverbrook to investigate the 1930s evangelical work of American religious leader Frank Buchman in England, particularly in Oxford.

Howard met, interviewed, and fell in with Buchman, eventually joining the inner circle of what became known as the Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement [1] and [2]. During and after World War II, MRA made what it considered to be the fight against worldwide Communism its highest priority, and Howard wrote seventeen plays on the themes of anti-Communism and world unity, several of them extremely didactic.

Upon Buchman's death in 1961, Howard took his place as the chosen successor to leadership of the worldwide MRA movement. In this work Howard himself traveled extensively. He died in Lima, Peru, in 1965.