Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unperturbed, H. R. H. pursued his task of inspecting the squalid East End, a job Edward of Wales used to do before passing it on to his younger brother. Last week the mob grew less & less appreciative, finally broke a British law which provides that while Parliament is sitting no demonstration shall take place within one mile of Parliament...
Parliament had just returned to sit in the Palace of Westminster, diagonally across the River Thames from the citadel of the Church of England, frowning Lambeth Palace. The London mob, swarming up from way down East, broke into Lambeth Borough and crowded even Lambeth Palace Road. For 700 years the town house of the Primate of All England has stood in Lambeth Palace Road. Last week dignitaries of the Church left Lambeth Borough to the mob and to courageous London bobbies who fought (in some cases) for their lives. One bobby, cornered in a side street, had his face smashed...
...fight lasted seven hours. Twenty times battling bobbies put on a truncheon charge. To defend the Houses of Parliament, to keep the mob from crossing the river, London's brave bobbies were obliged for the first time to rush motor cars up to Thames bridgeheads and park them close together as an impromptu barricade...
...Another mob, this one of out-&-out Communists, scrimmaged one night in Fleet Street with Sir Oswald Moseley and 100 of his black-shirted British Fascists. Police dispersed them...
...after summer recess with only the River Thames and several hundred London bobbies between themselves and a savage mob of 10,000 unemployed (see above...