"I Love Mosley"

The Nazi Horst Wessel song could be heard any Sunday in London's Bethnal Green. Frankly Fascist street meetings were attracting larger & larger audiences.

Britain was certainly not going Fascist, but the recent progress made by Sir Oswald Mosley's old friends was a symptom of how sick, politically and economically, Britain was. Young Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt visited some of these meetings. Last week, in the New Statesman and Nation, he reported on what he had seen:

" 'Well, spivs,' the speaker began, 'we all know this society,' pointing at the placard labeled British League of ex-Servicemen, 'is a sham. We are Fascists and we're proud of it. I love Mosley.'

"He had other information for the audience. Britain was now a fifth-rate nation, dictated to by 4,000 Jews afloat in British ships. There was only one way to stop terrorism. Take out whole Jewish families in Palestine and shoot them against a wall and do the same to Jewish families here.

"The police shorthand writer, leaning against a wall, impassively took note of this incitement to violence. Three-quarters of the crowd approved it. ... Standing in the streets were ordinary working men, listening with attention and with approbation. 'That's right' they said, as the speaker told them of the folly of making war on Germany. 'That's right,' they said, as he denounced the House of Commons as an institution.

"[Some listeners] started off towards [a] Communist meeting to break that up, shouting as they went, 'Two, four, six, eight. Who do we appreciate? M-O-S-L-E-Y.' "

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