Peter Dunsmore Howard (20 December 1908 – 25 February 1965)[1] was a British journalist, playwright, captain of the England national rugby union team and leader of Moral Re-Armament from 1961 to 1965.
[2] A graduate of the University of Oxford and journalist, Howard captained the England national rugby union team while he worked with Oswald Mosley for the New Party.
After a flirtation with Mosley's Blackshirts, Howard joined the Conservative Party and became a political correspondent and investigative reporter for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express.
Meanwhile, Howard had been assigned by Lord Beaverbrook to investigate the 1930s English evangelical movement of the American religious leader Frank Buchman, the Oxford Group, which was later renamed Moral Re-Armament.
[6] Moral Re-Armament made the fight against communism a high priority during and after World War II and considered it a threat to peace and religious freedom.