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When Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, arrived in Rome last week, the Communist newspaper L'Unita printed his photograph upside down. It was no mistake, and with a little helpful prodding from L'Unita, most readers got the point. In 1945, after Italian Partisans executed Benito Mussolini and his mistress, they hanged the pair upside down in Milan...
...Standard's charges were true-up to a point. Strachey, after joining Sir Oswald Mosley (1931), had broken with him by 1935 and made the small but conspicuous shift to Communism. He says he never became a party member, but he was certainly one of the most influential spokesmen for Stalinism in the English-speaking world of the Swirling Thirties...
Oxford, he wrote (signing himself simply "Oxonian"), had become a hotbed of fascism. "Rather smart young men" with a taste for "fast cars and camel-hair coats" were displaying the books of Sir Oswald Mosley on their tables. They could be heard saying at their private binges that "soon we shall all have to be fascists, whether we like...
...sinecure, first established in 1351. Its traditional duties involve managing royal estates, making local appointments to the tune of a couple of hours a week. Former holders: Winton Churchill (1915), Sir Oswald Mosley...
Died. The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 33, erratic blonde friend of Adolf Hitler (who called her "the perfect example of Nordic beauty)," sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, fourth daughter of Baron Redesdale of Redesdale;* reportedly of meningitis; in Oban, Scotland. Unity, suffering from a mysteriously inflicted bullet wound, was sent home from Germany at Christmas 1939, in a special train ordered by Hitler...