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 "No
rising star in the political firmament ever shone more brightly
than Sir Oswald Mosley. Since by general assent he could have become
the leader of either the Labour or the Conservative Party. What
Mosley so valiantly stood for could have saved this country from
the Hungry Thirties and the Second World War". - Michael
Foot, M.P.
"The greatest comet of British politics in
the twentieth century . . . an orator of the highest rank. He produced,
almost unaided, a programme of economic reconstruction which surpassed
anything offered by Lloyd George or, in the United States, by F.
D. Roosevelt... He has continued fertile in ideas.. These ideas
came to him by inspiration . . . Interned quite absurdly under Regulation
18B during the Second World War. . . He was never anti-Semitic -
only opposed to a Second World War for the sake of Jews elsewhere.
He was never unpatriotic - only indifferent to German conquests
in eastern Europe... A superb political thinker, the best of our
age". - A.J.P.Taylor
"A man who had aimed throughout his life at
what he might describe as a Greek idea of excellence . He is anxious
to synthesise the impulses of religion and science ... In the field
of ideas he was a creative force... His tremendous talents as a
platform speaker and parliamentary debater were available to give
maximum effect. If events had so decided and awarded him the supreme
office he would not have lacked the dedication nor the courage"
- Earl of Longford
"He had an impeccable record in the First
World War . . It was silly to intern Mosley during the Second World
War. He was not in the least unpatriotic, any more than he was anti-Semitic
or in favour of revolution by force.. . He had, I think, greater
natural political talent than any survivor of his generation from
the First World War" - Sir Colin Coote
"Attentive, considerate and infinitely courteous.
. . he talks like a statesman who may be in the wilderness but who
knows he is not finished yet... Sir Oswald believes in a consensus
government, with people from the parties, the universities, public
life and the army.. . Would go to the stake for Britain and her
people" - Geoffrey Moorhouse
"A man of powerful will and bold intelligence,
self-disciplined, by no means lacking in shrewdness or even humour,
a spell-binding speaker, a truly formidable figure". - Colin
Welch
"In his extraordinary career as soldier, politician,
socialite, international sportsman, he had known most of the prominent
people of his time.., a spectacular career". - George Murray
"He might have been able to lead either the
Conservative or the Labour Party and in either case . . . I should
have joined him. I discerned in him . . . this kind of quality of
leadership that I discerned in only two other men during all my
period of political life. One is Lloyd George and the other is Churchill".
- Lord Boothby
"The stuff of greatness - more than a spark
of genius". - John Blake
Diana Mosley - Loved Ones
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may be considered inappropriate to include a short memoir of Oswald
Mosley in a book about friends. We were married for forty-four years,
my knowledge of him and my love for him can obviously not be compared
with the affection I bore the other characters I have tried to describe.
As I shall never write his biography, which on the political side
has been adequately done by Robert Skidelsky and is certain to be
done again, and as his autobiography My Life was
a highly-praised bestseller when it was published in 1968, all that
seems necessary is a short account of the man himself in private
life, and perhaps to clear up one or two mysteries....
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Modernise Britain
 BRITISH
INDUSTRY must be re-equipped to match the capacity of other
nations. A Japanese steel-worker produces SIX times as much
as a British steel-worker. A British car-worker is outproduced
FOUR times. Not because the Japanese works six times as hard
as the Briton but because he has better equipment. The British
worker will also be highly productive once he has better equipment.
The answer is modern industries with the latest machines.
Raise the pay of British workers as they produce more from
their machines. It is the job of government to take the lead
in this reorganisation...
The Power of Guerrilla Warfare
America and Europe are only now learning in the hard way the
elementary facts of modern political struggle. It is above
all a battle of ideas and, as I pointed out long ago, it is
impossible to enter that struggle effectively without an idea.
I contended in The European Situation (1950) that these issues
in the future would be decided not by regular military forces
but by political guerrillas fighting for an idea. The man
who won the battle would be half soldier and half politician
because his primary objective must be winning the support
of the civilian population...
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Exploitation of Cheap Labour
We British in particular can draw full warning from our past
against the errors which all Europe is now committing. It
is not a matter of theory but of fact that the chief industries
of Britain were ruined in the twenties and thirties by the
exploitation of cheap labour in undercutting competition,
not only on world markets but by import of their goods to
our own market. The experience of the cotton industry of Lancashire
and the woolen industry of Yorkshire is evidence of what can
occur when advanced countries export machinery to countries
where finance can exploit labour with lower wages to compete
disastrously against them. ...
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The reconciliation of action and liberty
We suggest a parliament elected on an occupational and not
a geographical franchise; party warfare would automatically
cease to exist in an assembly elected on completely different
lines. As for controversy in the press, I would suggest a
completely free press subject to one new condition; any individual
or institution - including the government - which was attacked
in a newspaper, should be given, by law, the right to equal
space in that paper for reply. This would in most cases reduce
time-wasting and destructive controversy in the press
to a minimum, as few newspaper owners would care very often
to open their columns for their victims to say anything they
liked in reply. In the case of an able and open-minded proprietor,
who felt capable of coping with, and enjoying, such a situation,
it might lead to much brighter newspapers; but on the
whole it would tend to squeeze the nonsense, unfairness, and
untruth out of the press very quickly. ...
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The wage-price mechanism
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is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere
of our economic system in which government intervention is
urgently necessary is also the only point at which action
of the State is now effectively inhibited. It is in the region
of wages and prices that we really require the continual economic
leadership of government, but in our prevailing trade structure
any such suggestion has come to be regarded as impious. ...
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The doctrine of Higher Forms
Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives.
The true union of Europe; the union of government with science;
the power of government to act rapidly and decisively, subject
to parliamentary control; the effective leadership of government
to solve the economic problem by use of the wage-price mechanism
at the two key-points of the modern industrial world; and
a clearly defined purpose for a movement of humanity to ever
higher forms. ...
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