Word: mosleyism
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...political shiftings. Son of John St. Loe Strachey, noted Tory editor of The Spectator, he was schooled at Eton and Oxford, became one of Labor's "wild young men" in the '20s. Breaking violently away in 1931, young John was chief lieutenant for Sir Oswald Mosley when Mosley was not quite a fascist...
...rebound from Mosley carried him further left than he had ever been. Though he denies he was ever a Communist party member, he became the most brilliant apologist for the party line in the English-speaking world. A decade ago his Coming Struggle for Power was not the Communist bible, but it was, at least, the Book of Common Prayer of fellow travelers. In the U.S. he told an acquaintance: "Communism is really a movement for better plumbing...
...last week demanded action against the fascists, they knew they were raising a classic question. Home Secretary James Chuter Ede drew the classic answer from Milton: "Where people aim at extirpating free discussions, they must be regarded as ripe for extirpation themselves." Mr. Ede continued with an assessment of Mosley that only a Briton could make: "We have a very ancient democracy, with a great sense of humor, and I am quite certain that we shall put the proper valuation on many of the claims and statements that have been made...
...Oswald Mosley told the celebrants that the years in prison had not changed his ideas at all. Present fascist tactics are cautious and exploratory. "Alien infiltration," "Socialist bureaucracy," Russia, the U.S. are the targets of propaganda slogans. Later the groups may get together under Sir Oswald, who is finishing a book on matters dear to his heart...
...Oswald Mosley, Britain's prewar fascist leader who spent most of the war years in the clink (for the empire's protection), was haled to court for neglecting the pigs on his Crow Wood Farm. An in spector said that the pigs - 76 in a pen 40-by-35 ft. - looked underfed and "most unhappy." Worms, not starvation, made the pigs look peaked, Sir Oswald explained, and was promptly freed...