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ACCIDENT by Nicholas Mosley. 192 pages. Coward-McCann...
Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head) has put readers on warning that novels by Oxford philosophy dons are apt to baffle as well as entertain. The same warning applies to Accident, by Nicholas Mosley (who is, coincidentally, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former chief of the British Union of Fascists), which is about an Oxford philosophy don, and which raises the art of the intellectual tease to the level of mild torture. There is no doubt that in Accident a fictional design of subtlety and distinction has been attempted. But it is a literary jigsaw puzzle with perhaps some extra...
...London import (1950). Drugs in London are mostly run by what in New York are called "scratch bums," i.e.. bums so crawling with lice that they are immune from police search. Dimly in Kops's background, public events take place: the Jews of the East End defeat Mosley's blackshirts in pitched battle, but it is all a dream. Kops alone is real to Kops. What is anyone to make of a man so self-absorbed that when he briefly becomes "converted," he seems to think he cannot belong to the Christian religion without becoming the Principal...
...because of these incidents, but since nobody can figure out just where to draw the line on limiting freedom of speech, the prevailing view, in the words of London's Evening Standard, is that instead of making a martyr of "this pitiful and eccentric figure," Britons should ignore Mosley and "allow him to drown in his own paranoia." That seems to be the government's intention. At week's end, Home Secretary Henry Brooke declined requests to suppress fascist rallies, even though they seemed likely to result in violence...
...Though bitterly anti-American, Mosley financed British-style fascism on a fortune inherited by his first wife from her grandfather, Chicago merchant prince Levi Z. Leiter. After her death he married Diana Mitford, whose blonde sister Unity was Hitler's good friend. In the '20s, before his fascist days, he was seriously reckoned as a future Prime Minister...