Word: mosleyism
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...often before in his turncoat career, dark, humorless, melodramatic Sir Oswald Mosley was the center of a storm last week. As often before, the storm was more important than its center...
...banning political uniforms stripped off the black shirts in 1937, but did not change the line of Mosley Fascists. Even the war did not stop Sir Oswald; not until May 1940 did total war make Britain curtail its traditional totally free speech. Then, without trial and for the safety of the kingdom, Sir Oswald and his ardently sympathetic wife, Lady Mosley, were locked up. Since then, he has been a privileged prisoner. In Holloway Prison (for women) he had his wife's company, a four-room apartment, other prisoners for charwomen, medical attendance and permission to visit London doctors...
...obvious that Morrison had merely carried out a decision of the Tory-dominated coalition Government. But that circumstance only heightened the fact that Sir Oswald Mosley was a British symbol of Britons' Fascist enemies. To the British working masses, who form the backbone of the Labor Party, Sir Oswald the Fascist symbol loomed large and black...
Laborite Ernest Bevin's big, powerful Transport and General Workers' Union resolved that freedom-for-Mosley indicated that "the Government is wavering in its adherence to the principles for which we are fighting." Morrison promptly broke his silence, chided T.G.W.U. for haste, and promised a full explanation to Parliament...
Society Note: Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain's No. 1 Fascist, will join his wife, Lady Diana, in new, enlarged jail quarters this week. Lady Diana has done the decorating job, laying carpets and fluffing pillows, and has hired two women prisoners as servants. The nest: an innovation at Holloway Prison-"flatlets" of two adjoining cells for husbands and wives...