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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...
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...
...Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. 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...
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...