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  Oswald Mosley - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980), was a British politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists.
Mosley continued to organise marches policed by the flshirts, and the government was sufficiently concerned to pass the Public Order Act 1936 which, amongst other things, banned political uniforms and quasi-military style organizations and came into effect on 1 January 1937.
Mosley was a noted philanderer and had numerous affairs, including, during his first marriage, with his wife's sister Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, as well as her stepmother, Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, the American-born widow of Lord Curzon of Kedleston.
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 Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald, 6th Baronet - MSN Encarta
Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald, 6th Baronet (1896-1980), controversial British parliamentary politician, who was a Member of Parliament (1918-1923, 1926-1931) and leader of the British Union of Fascists (1932-1940).
From the landed gentry, Mosley was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst Military Academy.
Mosley failed to criticize any of the actions of the European fascist dictators in the 1930s, and was persuaded to allow the BUF to become anti-Semitic once it was no longer trying to impress respectable opinion.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566540/Mosley_Sir_Oswald_Ernald_6th_Baronet.html   (932 words)

  
  Oswald Mosley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980), was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists.
Mosley continued to organise marches policed by the flshirts, and the government was sufficiently concerned to pass the Public Order Act 1936 which, amongst other things, banned political uniforms and quasi-military style organizations and came into effect on 1 January 1937.
Mosley was a noted philanderer and had numerous affairs including, during his first marriage, with his wife's sister Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, as well as her stepmother, Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, the American-born widow of Lord Curzon of Kedleston.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oswald_Mosley   (2024 words)

  
 The Mosley Family of Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the Blackshirts in Britain in the 1930s was from the Staffordshire and Lancashire Mosley family.
Sir Nicholas Mosley, 2nd son of Edward Mosley, of Hought End, Didsbury, a cloth merchant, acquired the Lordship of the Manor of Manchester in 1596, was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1599 three years after purchasing the manor and was knighted by Elizabeth during his mayoralty.
Sir John Parker Mosley, created a baronet on 24 March 1781 was 4th and youngest son of Nicholas Mosley of Manchester, succeeeded to all the family estates.
www.thornber.net /cheshire/htmlfiles/mosley.html   (1743 words)

  
 Oswald Mosley
Mosley was impressed by Mussolini's achievements and when he returned to England he disbanded the New Party and replaced it with the British Union of Fascists.
Mosley was unsuccessful in his two attempts to enter the House of Commons for Kensington North (1959) and Shoreditch and Finsbury (1966).
The release of Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley is a slap in the face of anti-fascists in every country and a direct betrayal of those who have died for the cause of anti- fascism.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRmosley.htm   (2553 words)

  
 William F Buckley Jr interviews Oswald Mosley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
SIR OSWALD: You have to consider in politics the effects of your actions, and the effect of that action was, obviously, to save Communist Russia.
SIR OSWALD: I should say that fascism in Spain died with an old friend of mine, who came to see me in London in the Thirties, Premier de Rivera, the son of the famous old Premier de Rivera, who was murdered by the Communists in prison just before the civil war broke out.
SIR OSWALD: Do you really think that flowery speeches like that, or trusting him or not trusting him, had any effect on a man who had gone the long and dusty road from Siberia to the Kremlin or that he could be won over by Mr.
www.oswaldmosley.com /background/firingline.htm   (8612 words)

  
 Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley (sometimes spelt Moseley, November 16, 1896 - December 3, 1980) was a British politician, founder of the British Union of Fascists.
Mosley became an Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918, the youngest member of the British House of Commons.
The British Union of Fascists was a union of numerous smaller extreme nationalist parties, and in a clear pastiche of Adolf Hitler, Mosley instituted a fl uniform, gaining the party the nickname flshirts.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/os/Oswald_Mosley.html   (404 words)

  
 Guardian | Oswald Mosley's circus
Nulls must certainly have envied Sir Oswald the number of his audience and the excitement he and his hecklers provided, he must have deplored the violence with which that excitement was obtained.
Suddenly, as Sir Oswald was speaking during a lull in the interruptions - so placed were the amplifiers that those in the seats reserved for the press could not distinguish his words - a pamphlet fluttered down from the blue gauze-covered roof.
After ten o'clock it was plainly a struggle between Sir Oswald and the decision of the licensing justices of the borough of Hammersmith.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3919005-110687,00.html   (875 words)

  
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Oswald Ernald Mosley was born on the 16
Oswald became interested in history and politics whilst he was recovering from his ankle injury and, spurred on by his war experiences, he was determined to pursue a career in politics.
Mosley became increasingly fervent in his beliefs of central control and became more and more in tune with the European 'fascist' ideals [remember that at this time there was little or no widespread knowledge of the darker side of European fascism - to Mosley it was just a political ideal].
www.budd.karoo.net /Mosley.htm   (1873 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Oswald Mosley's widow dies
Sir Oswald Mosley was arrested and she joined him behind bars at Holloway Prison in London, where they remained until being released in 1943 on the grounds of his ill-health.
One report read: "Diana Mosley, wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, is reported on the best authority, that of her family and intimate circle, to be a public danger at the present time.
Sir Oswald died in 1980 and as a widow, Lady Mosley remained in Paris to continue her husband's work.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3146225.stm   (435 words)

  
 battle of cable street - newspaper
The rout of the Mosley gang is due to the splendid way in which the whole of East London's working-class rallied as one man (and one woman) to bar the way to the Blackshirts.
Sir Oswald was asked to see Sir Phillip Game, who informed him that in view of the large crowds and previous clashes, and the risk of further ones the procession would have to be diverted to the Embankment
Sir Oswald Mosley had planned a march of his Blackshirts from Royal Mint-street, facing the Tower of London, through the East End to four centres where he was to address his followers.
www.csb-berlin.com /berichte/battle_of-cable-street_newspaper.htm   (5145 words)

  
 The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Can a new biography of Mosley explain how a Labour politician concerned with ...
Sir Oswald Mosley was probably the most famous British politician of the twentieth century whose party never held a single seat in Parliament.
Mosley was recently voted, in a poll in BBC History, as one of the most evil men in British history, along with Jack the Ripper and assorted Medieval psychopaths, yet he arguably never hurt anyone in his life, and in many respects remained a model English gentleman until his dying day.
Mosley's first wife, Lady Cynthia Curzon, was the granddaughter of a Chicago meatpacking millionaire named Levi Leiter, and was also widely believed to have been of Jewish descent, although it seems that her American ancestors were "Aryan" Mennonites.
www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000920.php   (1681 words)

  
 Max Mosley at AllExperts
Mosley is the second son of the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford.
A later restructuring of the FIA led to the demise of FISA and Mosley was elected president of the FIA.
Mosley for a time was interested in becoming a Conservative MP but like his father switched his allegiance to the Labour Party after meeting its then leader, John Smith, in 1994.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/max_mosley.htm   (677 words)

  
 BBC - Wiltshire - Connecting Wiltshire - Remembering Mosely
Mosley was a product of his time, an aristocrat who, appalled at the injustices being visited upon the greater majority in the late 1920's and 1930's, made the hazardous political journey from a privilege position to the ranks of the Labour party, winning a seat in the Commons.
Deborah is, of course, the Mistress of Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire.
Sir Oswald subsequently divorced and married Diana Mitford, in Berlin, with both Hitler and Goebbels being present.
www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/connect/oswald_mosely.shtml   (567 words)

  
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Mosley's British Union Of Fascists was the first political party in Britain in 1949 to call for a European Union.
Mosley edited a magazine, "The European", between 1953 and 1959, which called for a "Union of Europe", proclaiming himself leader of the Union Movement which campaigned for "Europe a Nation".
Sir Oswald continued to promote the Nazi vision of a world divided up into self-sufficient, autarkic, blocs which would be corporatist in character, which would deny the existence of class struggle.
www.poptel.org.uk /against-eurofederalism/mosley.html   (625 words)

  
 Nicholas Mosley at AllExperts
He is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley and Cynthia Curzon, the daughter of Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.
Born in London, Mosley was educated at Eton and Oxford and served in Italy during the Second World War.
Mosley has also written two volumes of family biography, Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 (1982) and Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933-1980 (1983) [1], and wrote the screenplay for Joseph Losey's 1973 film, The Assassination of Trotsky.
en.allexperts.com /e/n/ni/nicholas_mosley.htm   (325 words)

  
 Oswald Mosley fonds, [before 1727]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Oswald Mosley was the father of Sir Oswald Mosley.
He was fourth in descent from Anthony Mosley, brother of Nicholas Mosley who became the Lord Mayor of London in 1599.
Oswald Mosley." Pasted on the inside front cover is a bookplate containing the Mosley family coat of arms, with the family motto "Mos Legem Regit" followed by "Sir Oswald Mosley Bart., Rolleston House".
library.lib.mcmaster.ca /archives/findaids/fonds/m/ms72.htm   (175 words)

  
 Oswald Mosley - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Mosley had found problems with disruption of New Party meetings and instituted a corps of fl uniformed paramilitary stewards who were nicknamed flshirts.
Mosley continued to organise marches policed by the flshirts, and the government was sufficiently concerned to pass the Public Order Act 1936 which banned political uniforms.
Cimmie Mosley died of peritonitis in 1933 which left Mosley free to marry his mistress née Mitford" class="a-lk">Diana Guinness, née Mitford, (one of the celebrated Mitford sisters).
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 Counter-Culture Review : BETRAYAL - OSWALD MOSLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
They have produced a thoughtful and balanced account of Mosley`s career, focusing in particular on his interrogation by Norman Birkett in 1940 (Birkett was a distinguished barrister commissioned by Churchill to find sufficient evidence with which to imprison Mosley, his wife and some 700 of his followers).
Mosley believed that war against Germany in 1939 was not in Britain`s best interests but he urged his followers to support the war effort.
The Mosleys retired to a life of luxury in Paris after 1945 (an attempted political comeback on an anti-immigration platform in the late 1950s was a pathetic throwback) and lost the respect of many of their former followers who had sacrificed so much for the cause.
www.altculture.org /ccult/ccult403.html   (425 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Hitler's English traitor is dead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
THE death of Lady Diana Mosley, the widow of Sir Oswald Mosley and one of the aristocratic Mitford sisters, ended a long and colourful life inexorably tainted by the extremist politics of her late husband and her notorious closeness to Adolf Hitler.
Sir Oswald, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, deeply admired Benito Mussolini and based his fascist principles on his idol.
Sir Oswald was Lady Diana’s idol and she adopted his views uncompromisingly.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=888412003   (993 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel: Books: Anne de Courcy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mosley was in the process of establishing the British Union of Fascism, and Diana, fervently in love, left her husband to support him and his cause.
Diana Mosley is one of the most controversial women of the 20th century: this outstanding biography is written with her full cooperation and also includes hundreds of hours of taped interviews, access to her private diaries and letters, and unparalleled ability to achieve intimate revelations.
Mosley was born in 1910, married the son of the Guiness fortune, divorced him and then married the head of the British Union of Fascists.
www.amazon.com /Diana-Mosley-Mitford-British-Fascist/dp/0060565330   (3262 words)

  
 Sir Oswald Mosley -- Briton, Fascist, European
If Mosley's struggle for peace ended in 1939, if indeed he was then the "brilliant failure" of the obituary notices, he did not have to run the gauntlet of those fifty million unnecessary dead when his time came to leave this earth and face another verdict beyond.
Mosley's concept of Europe thus went much further than the present "European Community" and was a direct contrast with it, replacing the national jealousies and economic rivalry of today's "common market" with an essential harmony.
Mosley was deeply concerned with this question in his Labour days, being much impressed with Lloyd George's inner cabinet of five men with wide powers which had won the First World War, and in his Memorandum proposed a "machinery of government" to modernize industry and solve unemployment.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v05/v05p139_Row.html   (9882 words)

  
 Oswald Mosley
At this stage in his career Mosley should have been satisfied; he was widely tipped for great things and was in a prime position from which to achieve them.
With the advent of peace and the defeat of nazism, Mosley’s Germanic brand of fascism was discredited and he began to turn toward a new stance and another prime example of his predilection for turning about his opinions.
The glorious incongruity of Mosley’s life is that he could have been whatever he chose but in the end failed to become anything at all.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /davidgibbons/mosleyweb.htm   (1956 words)

  
 Morally handicapped by Brooke Allen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Diana Mosley’s character is in essence a negative one: her life, her gestures, her opinions were quite conscious reflections of those of her man. She deliberately allowed herself to be obscured by her husband’s gaudier personality, as she had been obscured during childhood and adolescence by her powerful older siblings, Nancy and Tom.
Mosley fell out with Lloyd George over the latter’s Irish policies, specifically the use of the hated “Black and Tans,”; and he was instrumental in bringing about the negotiations with Sinn Fein that led to the declaration of the Irish Free State.
Mosley devoted his waning influence to a doomed campaign for peace, which he carried on right up to the outbreak of hostilities in 1939.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/18/apr00/brooke.htm   (2618 words)

  
 Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1931 he founded another socialist party, the New party, but it received little support, and Mosley began to drift toward fascism.
He organized (1932) the British Union of Fascists, modeled upon the German and Italian fascist parties.
Until after the outbreak of World War II, Mosley conducted a speech-making campaign of vilification and abuse, directed largely against the Jews.
www.bartleby.com /65/mo/Mosley-S.html   (257 words)

  
 Dalkey Archive Press: Nicholas Mosley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
And as Mosley's narrator moves through the possibilities of half-truths, lies, conspiracies, and betrayals, he himself creates a parallel crisis in his personal life wherein he and his wife are trying to destroy their marriage or save it, or--as we come to expect in Mosley novels--do both at once.
Mosley's style of writing is unique, and his ability to shape and mold a novel like a clay work in progress is remarkable.
Mosley is also the author of several nonfiction works, most notably his autobiography Efforts at Truth, and a biography of his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, entitled Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale.
www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/mosley.html   (5298 words)

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