Word: mosleyism
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...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...
...files, came out swinging with an updated version of a favorite theme: an attack on the royal family. In an article in the diminutive weekly Socialist Leader, he raised a pointed question: was the King involved in Mussolini's prewar financial support of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley? If so, "there is every reason why the House of Hanover should follow the House of Savoy into exile...
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...
Svelte, beautiful Margot Cairns White was a ballet dancer and the daughter of a respectable British family of Cheetham Hill, Manchester. She was also, like the late, infamous William Joyce, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Like Joyce, Margot had a falling out with Sir Oswald, and when Joyce departed for Germany a few days before war broke out, she sailed with him to become his second wife. His first, a Glaswegian, later identified Joyce as Hitler's Haw Haw. Margot became Lady...
...Sahara explorer, and a leftist journalist. Nancy, who now lives in Paris writing the English versions of Anglo-French movies, is politically pinkish, and takes a dim view of her sisters, who include: 1) Unity, famed Hitler-loving Wagnerian blonde; 2) Diana, wife of Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley (she spent most of World War II in jail); 3) Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action since 1941), and is now married to a left-wing San Francisco lawyer; 4) Pamela, wife of Derek Ainslie Jackson, a British physicist...