Word: mosleyism
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...Fish Caught. Seven thousand men and 3,500 women were interned as enemy aliens. The net thrown out for fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
When police arrived at the "Black House" of Sir Oswald's British Union, they did not find the Führer himself, but eight black-shirted comrades who lined up and shouted "Hell Mosley!" before they were hustled off to Brixton Gaol. Married with Nazi pomp to Diana Guinness, sister of the Führer's bullet-punctured friend Unity Freeman-Mitford, with Hitler reported to have been best man. Sir Oswald recently celebrated "my forthcoming arrest" in a swank London restaurant. He was picked up at home and police were sent after his wife, who had headed...
Since the war began, cocky British Führer Oswald Mosley was reported in London to have found a new pastime, cookery. His specialty: lobster mousse...
...once-familiar voice in Britain. Though Joyce was born in the U. S., of an Irish father and a Yorkshire mother, he was taken to England as a boy. He went to London University, was a star language student, tutored for some years, took up with Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1933. He became Mosley's speechifying director of propaganda. In 1937, he was kicked out, formed Britain's National Socialist League. As a memento of one Fascist brawl in Great Britain, Joyce carries the scar of a razor slash from mouth...
...Manchester (TIME, Feb. 5) Mr. Churchill was indeed interrupted, but only by three isolated and promptly shushed calls for British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...