Word: mosleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circle of Miss West's inferno is that of the grotesques-those who were more developed but scarcely older than the children. Some were, like Kenneth Edward, merchant seamen. Some were British prisoners of war who went over to the Germans. Some had been members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Almost all became members of the British Free Corps...
Britain was certainly not going Fascist, but the recent progress made by Sir Oswald Mosley's old friends was a symptom of how sick, politically and economically, Britain was. Young Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt visited some of these meetings. Last week, in the New Statesman and Nation, he reported on what he had seen...
...Well, spivs,' the speaker began, 'we all know this society,' pointing at the placard labeled British League of ex-Servicemen, 'is a sham. We are Fascists and we're proud of it. I love Mosley...
...Author. Philip Toynbee, 31, son of famed British Historian Arnold Toynbee and grandson of Oxford's Professor Gilbert Murray, is no chip off the old block. At 17 he ran away from school at Rugby, later became a Communist, was beaten up by Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts at a fascist meeting. He got into Oxford with difficulty and became the first Communist president of the Union (Oxonian debating society). He later rejected Communism, joined the army as a Welsh Guardsman in 1940, was "commissioned as an intelligence officer and wound up in the Ministry of Economic Warfare...
Everyone seemed to agree that this time old H. G. had really put his foot in his gabby mouth. Snorted Mosley: "Absolute nonsense." The Keeper of the Privy Purse (treasurer to the King) thought it "most amusing." Most Britons ignored it; H. G. Wells simply did not understand a king who was neither tyrant nor snob, who merely served his people as a symbol of their past, their pride and their good manners...