Papuans Attend Asian
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MRA Talks
When the First Asian Assembly r MRA (Moral Re-Armament) — out 500 people from 30 countries assembled in Colombo on October , those present included the follow ; delegation from Papua-New linea, selected and sent to Ceylon the Australian Department of rritories:— . Merai Dickson, Papuan Member of he Papua and New Guinea Legislative Council. i. Vera Dickson, wife of Merai Dickson, nd a school-teacher, is Alice Wedega, Papuan Delegate to le Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in few Zealand in 1952.
Penueli Anakupu, editor of the apuan Times, an English newspaper sr Papuans.
MRA is the movement launched ginally as the Oxford Group, and w led by Dr. Frank Buchman. Its
purpose is to bring about such a change in economic and social con ditions—on the part of both capitalists and communists—that the present tendency towards inter-racial and inter-class struggle will disappear.
The press reports that notable speeches were made in Colombo by Mr. Dickson and Miss Wedega.