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   From: abelard3@abelard.org   
      
   On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:52:34 +0000, White Spirit   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 04/03/15 12:04, Ed Huntress wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:51:04 +0000, White Spirit   
   >>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> On 01/03/15 22:38, Ed Huntress wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Mosley was a blackshirt fascist. Like the Nazis, he only used the word   
   >>>> "socialist" in a deceitful way, to curry favor. He was no more of a   
   >>>> "socialist" than Hitler   
   >   
   >>> That's not correct.  Look into the reason why he left the Labour Party   
   >>> and joined the New Party, for example.  Going back a bit further, look   
   >>> into the reasons why he crossed the floor.  Mosley definitely had strong   
   >>> Socialist leanings.   
   >   
   >> Mosley, like other fascists, straddled all of the popular "isms" of   
   >> the day, even when they were contradictory to one another.   
   >   
   >> The trick was to give the same thing two different labels, so you   
   >> could love one and hate the other, to curry favor with as many   
   >> interests as possible.   
   >   
   >Those are examples of genuine political belief on his part.  He began to   
   >lose his idealism and compromise his beliefs during the BUF period.   
      
   he moved steadily leftward all his life   
      
      
   P.G. Wodehouse in The Code of the Woosters, 1937 —   
      
       “Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the Saviours of   
   Britain, a Fascist organization better known as the Black Shorts.”   
      
       “The moment I had set eyes on Spode, if you remember, I had said   
   to myself ‘What ho! A Dictator!’ and a Dictator he had proved to be. I   
   couldn’t have made a better shot, if I had been one of those   
   detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he   
   is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with   
   rheumatism in one arm, living in Clapham.   
           ‘Well, I’m dashed! I thought he was something of that sort.   
   That chin … Those eyes… And, for the matter of that, that moustache.   
   By the way, when you say “shorts”, you mean “shirts”, of course.’   
           ‘No. By the time Spode formed his association, there were no   
   shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.’   
           ‘Footer bags, you mean?’   
           ‘Yes.’   
           ‘How perfectly foul.’   
           ‘Yes.’   
           ‘Bare knees?’   
           ‘Bare knees.’   
           ‘Golly!’   
           ‘Yes.’   
      
      
      
      
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