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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...porcine British Press Tycoon Lord Rothermere, pudding-headed brother of the late great Northcliffe, caught acute cold feet last week regarding his candidate for British dictator, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley...
...half a mile longer than the Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River. The latter consists of two tubes, with two lanes of one-way traffic in each. Queensway, being a single tube, has four lanes of traffic. Said Queensway's Chief Engineer Sir Basil Mott: "We owe much to experience gained by the Americans in building the Holland Tunnels...
Ever since British public opinion was revolted by Adolf Hitler's ruthless blood-purge the Rothermere press drive for Mosley Fascism has been weakening and wobbling. A recent Daily Mail editorial announced the noble Lord's discovery that Britain "needs and will have no dictators." To Sir Oswald that sounded like welshing. He dashed off a letter to Lord Rothermere which the Daily Mail printed last week under the headline "DIVERGENCE OF IDEAS...
...Conservative," wrote Sir Oswald to the peer who has been his chief backer. "We Black Shirts are Fascists. . . . You would like us to abandon the creed of Fascism and the word Fascist. We cannot do this because it is a creed which means everything in the world to us." He expounded three principles of action in which he believes and Lord Rothermere apparently does...
Overnight the Rothermere retreat from Mosley gave pause to the maker of Britain's snorting little Morris cars. Lord Nufneld, formerly Sir William Morris, reputedly a heavy contributor to Sir Oswald's Fascist war chest. In a letter to The Jewish Chronicle Lord Nufneld announced that he had just given ?250 ($1.250) to the British fund for refugees from Nazidom and roundly declared: "I never subscribed to the Fascist movement nor supported it in any way; neither have I the least antipathy toward the Jewish race. It occurs to me that the best means of evidencing the foregoing...