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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mosley campaign methods are brazen, breezy and effective. They electioneer from a limousine, confounding tattered hecklers with the question: "Why shouldn't we be comfortable?" She kisses babies without bothering to doff her pearls. The only downright campaign lie he tells is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Only Hope!" As he lay abed snuffling last week, several portents appeared to please Sir Oswald Mosley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Such measures are precisely the Mosley program: The New Party will march to the polls demanding that a limited dictatorship or "Cabinet of Five" be set up with extraordinary powers in the economic and social realm. In foreign policy and traditional "affairs of state" (in the Victorian sense) the British Cabinet would remain in status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Party Program. The definitive program of the New Party is the so-called Mosley Manifesto of last December. With such ringing phrases as "we surrender nothing of our Socialist faith!" it angles for the Labor vote. But Capitalists find comfort in the manifesto's explicit postponement of a decision whether British industry is to continue the possession of rich men or become property of a Socialist State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Cynthia. For Lady Cynthia Mosley, fighting the New Party's battles last week meant standing up at mass meetings, giving as good as she got from hecklers of all the big parties, keeping her temper, sharpening her wit, pleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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