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Born. To Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, Great Britain's blackest fascist, and his wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public...
Marriage Revealed. Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, leader of Great Britain's black-shirted Fascists; and The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28, whom Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...
Blonde, brassy the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, ardent admirer of Führer Adolf Hitler, and 23-year-old daughter of England's pro-German insurance tycoon Lord Redesdale, has a failing for flaunting her swastika pin where it causes trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation...
...golden-haired girl wearing a swastika pin. "Throw her in the Serpentine!" shouted enraged friends, spat in the young woman's face, kicked her shins, threw rocks after her as she ran out of Hyde Park. The young woman proved to be the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, a daughter of Lord Redesdale, who is pro-German, and she has worn her swastika ever since it was given her by Adolf Hitler. The Hon. Unity's 19-year-old brother-in-law, Mr. Esmond Marcus David Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill, was among the first foreign friends...
...side of Winston Churchill's 18-year-old Nephew Esmond Romilly, fighting with the Spanish Loyalists since last December, sped the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, 19, beauteous fifth daughter of Baron Redesdale. When fuming Lord Redesdale moved to have Daughter Jessica made a ward in chancery so that it would have been a crime for any Englishman to marry her without the consent of the High Court, Esmond and Jessica coolly announced that that was all right with them, "as what is marriage but a mere convention?" A British consular official was sent after the couple, instructed...