Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrews and he believes that every Briton must do his duty by King and Country. That his police should be unable to stop jaywalking last week and unable the week before to create an atmosphere of order at Sir Oswald Mosley's monster Fascist mass meeting in Olympia (TIME, June 18). pained Sir John beyond expression. In the House of Commons he explained the traditional British theory that policemen need not be present inside a public meeting to create order, but achieve calm by their mere presence around the building...
...Government is determined that no person or group of persons shall usurp the functions of the State," declared Sir John, referring to the Mosley blackshirts who seized hecklers at Olympia with policemanly vigor and threw them outside to be arrested by Sir John's Bobbies. Later he said: "The Government has decided that alterations in the law shall be made to give uniformed policemen the right to attend any meeting at which they have reason to anticipate disorder...
...shrugs by his feat seven weeks ago of filling Albert Hall with 10,000 London ers whose applause of his hour and a half speech left the nation cold. Only the Communists seemed to take Sir Oswald seriously. They turned out last week by hundreds when he packed vast Olympia, the six-acre hall in which Their Majesties sit through many a patriotic pageant. With what London reporters called a chorus of "borrowed Americanism" the British Bolsheviks jeered at the blackshirts: "Mosley is Public Enemy Number...
Without waiting to hear what else the little man in black might have to say, Reds started 20 fist fights in 20 different parts of Olympia. These were broken up by Fascist "flying squads" who squelched male hecklers but stood back before women disturbers until female Fascist squelchers could rush in. As they dug in with finger nails and hair pulling, ladies in the audience paled, tugged at their escort's arms, insisted on being taken home. Suddenly from the steel rafters of Olympia, more than 50 feet above Sir Oswald, daring antiFascists set up a jeering...
Next day the old guard British parties denounced Sir Oswald for his foreign and un-British resort to force in founding a "private army'' instead of sticking to straight politics. Laborites accused the police of improper Fascist leanings and undue readiness at Olympia to arrest working-class hecklers. Over the weekend six Cabinet Ministers dignified British Fascism by making speeches against it. Keynoters: Minister of Labor Sir Henry Betterton: "The country must decide at the next election whether constitutional government will remain or be destroyed." Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister: "If the disaster of Dictatorship comes...