Word: lampson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, son of the poet Frederick Locker, was host to Albert Einstein eight months ago he was so convinced that Nazi agents would attempt to murder the benign German scientist that he mounted a guard of gamekeepers over him. Lately the blatant manifestations of black-shirted British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley have filled Commander Locker-Lampson with wild alarm. He rose in the House of Commons last week to introduce a bill that would not only deprive Sir Oswald of his uniform, but would strip the shirt from his distinguished mother, the very dignified Katharine...
Only two years ago Commander Locker-Lampson had a somewhat Fascist organization of his own which wore blue shirts, tramped about to an anthem entitled "March On." How many Fascists he in his time had or Sir Oswald Mosley at present has is impossible to say. Only accurate gauge is that both succeeded in filling Albert Hall, which seats some 10,000 people, at party mass meetings. Cooler than Commander Locker-Lampson last week. Edward Tumour, Earl of Winterton, hoisted himself to his feet to oppose the motion. First he explained that, as foreign governments have discovered to their dismay...
Next came a file of potent witnesses who testified that they could find no connection between the character of the cinema's Princess Natasha and Princess Youssoupov. Most impressive was Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson. Now a Conservative M. P. for Birmingham, he is the son of famed Poet Frederick Locker-Lampson. During the War he went to Russia in command of a squadron of armored cars. Last week in London he testified...
...best plan for a student to follow, in order to profit by the educational opportunities offered by both Yale and Harvard, is to take his undergraduate work at one and his graduate at the other," said William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor emeritus of English at Yale University and eminent writer and lecturer, in an interview with the CRIMSON recently...
Impressed, the House voted Commander Locker-Lampson's bill through first reading. The Commander rivals Sir Oswald Mosley as an organizer of British Fascists, heads a blue-shirted league of ''Sentinels of Empire" whose motto is Fear God! Fear Naught! (TIME, July 6, 1931). By coming out squarely against brown-shirted antiSemitism, Blue-Shirt Locker-Lampson placed his movement in line to receive contributions from wealthy British Jews. In Berlin next day he was called a "knight of opportunism" by Chancellor Hitler's personal newsorgan Der Völkischer Beobachter which headlined EINSTEINIAN JEW SHOW...