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Fredrick
Nietzsche - Nietzsche, Friedrich, German philosopher,
poet, and classical philologist, who became one of the most provocative
and influential thinkers of the 19th century. Nietzsche was born on October
15, 1844, in Röcken, Prussia. His father, a Lutheran minister, died when
Nietzsche was five, and Nietzsche was raised by his mother in a home that
included his grandmother, two aunts, and a sister. ...
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Julius
Evola - Europe's Revolt against the Modern World - The
first political step in forging a united Europe would be the withdrawal
of all European governments from the United Nations, a hypocritical organisation
if there ever was. The ground for a European initiative must be carefully
prepared; but the problems of concrete political tactics fall outside the
scope of this essay. Here we can only point to what we believe must be the
form and the spiritual and doctrinal basis of united Europe. ...
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Martin
Heidegger - The German philosopher Martin Heidegger,
was one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century. He attended
a Jesuit seminary, then earned (1914) his doctorate from the University
of Freiburg, where he became the assistant to Edmund Husserl. Heidegger
was affiliated with the University of Freiburg throughout his career except
for a brief period as a professor at the University of Marburg. ...
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Georges
Sorel - Georges Sorel was born in Normandy in 1847
and, after receiving a private education there, attended the Ecole Polytechnique,
where he distinguished himself in mathematics. He entered the civil service
as an engineer and retired after the requisite twenty-five years, then
promptly took up writing, and through innumerable books, established his
place as a major social critic. The most famous and most extreme advocate
of syndicalism, Georges Sorel's passion for revolutionary activity in
place of rational discourse made him most influential in shaping the direction
of fascism, especially in Mussolini's Italy. ...
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Oswald
Spengler - The German historicist writer, Oswald
Spengler, was born at Blankenburg, Harz, studied at Halle, Munich and
Berlin and taught mathematics (1908) in Hamburg before devoting himself
entirely to the compilation of the prophetic philosophy of history, The
Decline of the West (Vol. I, 1918, Vol. II, 1922). In this work,
Spengler argued by analogy, in the manner of Hegel and Marx, that all
civilizations or cultures are subject to the same cycles of growth and
decay in accordance with predetermined "historical destiny."
The soul of Western Civilization is dead. ...
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Diana
Mosley - Diana, Lady Mosley, now 92, was born into one of the most intriguing
and gifted families of the 20th century, the Mitfords. The lowest point
in Lady Mosley's life came between 1940 and 1943 when she was incarcerated
without charge or trial amid the filth of Holloway and she paints a horrifying
word picture of her experiences, with her in Holloway was Lady Alexandrina
Domvile while her husband, Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, was sharing a cell
with "Tom" Mosley in Brixton.
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Ezra
Pound - Modernist poet Ezra Pound is known for advancing the work of
such contemporaries as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, James Joyce,
Ernest Hemingway, and especially T. S. Eliot. A proponent of Imagism, a
movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry which stresses
clarity and economy of language, Pound believed poetry should "compose
in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome."
His later work, focused on the encyclopedic epic poem he entitled "The
Cantos" for which he was awarded the Bollingen-Library of Congress
Award. ...
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Henry
Williamson - Born in Brockley, southeast London, in
December 1895, Henry Williamson was educated at Colfe's Grammar School,
Lewisham. He spent much of his early life exploring the nearby Kent countryside,
where his love of Nature and animals and his artistic awareness and sensitivity
were first stimulated. Never satisfied unless he had seen things for himself,
he always made sure that he studied things closely enough to get the letter
as well as the spirit of reality. This enabled him to develop a microscopic
observational ability which came to dominate his life. ...
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| People - Notable members of the BUF and Union Movement |
Sir
John Adrian Chamier - Air Commodore, Sir John Adrian Chamier K.B.,
C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., was born in 1883. He was educated at
St. Paul's School and R.M.C. Sandhurst and served in the Indian Army between
1902 and 1915. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, which later went
on to become the Royal Air Force. ...
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Sir
Malcolm Campbell - Land speed record holder Malcolm Campbell
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Lord
Erroll - Lord Erroll the Hereditary Lord High Constable
for Scotland, the 22nd Earl of Erroll known to his friends as "Joss" lived
in Kenya. He visited Britain in April 1934 and on the 3rd May he visited
BUF Headquarters, The Black House in Chelsea, to join the B.U.F. The British
colony of Kenya had a very a hard time surviving economically since the
First World War. ...
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Major
General J.F.C. Fuller - J.F.C. Fuller was born in Chichester
in 1878. He was commissioned into the British army in 1899 and saw service
during the Boar War in South Africa. During the First World War he was
a staff officer in France and in 1916 he became chief staff of the British
Tank Corps, and it was he who planned the Cambrai offensive which took
place in 1917 which involves 381 tanks. ...
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Jeffrey
Hamm - Jeffrey Hamm was one of the handful of activists who kept the
flame of British Nationalism alive in the barren years following the Second
World War. A life-long supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley, he served in the
original British Union of Fascists (BUF), the post-war Union Movement
(UM), and later helped "The Leader" in the compilation of his
memoirs (published in 1968 as My Life). ...
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Olive
Hawks - Olive Hawks joined the secretarial staff
of British Union at the age of 16 and soon became assistant to George
Sutton, the Director of Research. However, her commitment to "British
Socialism" soon gained her a speakers warrant and she became Women's Leader
for the Peckham Branch. ...
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Jorian
Jenks, when he was appointed British Union Parliamentary Candidate for
Horsham and Worthing in 1936, was already well known to readers of "Action".
The author of many brilliant articles on agriculture, sometimes as "Vergilius",
was a working Sussex farmer and understood only too well the iniquity of
a government policy that imported cheap food from overseas while British
producers faced bankruptcy. ...
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Dennis Lucan
DFM - Dennis Lucan another of Mosley's young men,
who nearly fifty years ago, was killed in action in the war which he,
as a Blackshirt, had fought just as courageously to prevent. Dennis Lucan
enlisted into the RAF in the first year of the war when 16. Did he "fool"
his recruiting officers ? we do not know but we do know that his baptism
of fire in shot and hail came, not in the RAF, but when as a 13 year old
Blackshirt Cadet at the bloody Leeds "Holbeck
Moor" Mosley meeting on September 17th 1936. ...
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Captain
D.M.K. Marendaz was "a swashbuckling ex-Royal Flying Corps pilot,
who has a niche in the history of the sports car. he was responsible for
a series of elegant custom built vehicles which bore his name in the nineteen
twenties and thirties". So went his obituary in the Times when he died
aged 91 on November 6th 1988. "A flier of the old school" "who regarded
his generation of pilots as the last of the true knights of the air...........in
their fragile contraptions of wire and fabric". ...
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Thomas
Power O'Connor - T.P. O'Connor was born in Athlone in 1848. After
an education at Queen's College, Galway, and became a journalist for the
Saunders' Newsletter in Dublin before moving to London to work for the
Daily Telegraph. ...
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Lucillia
Reeve - was born in March 1889 and began her working life as a domestic
servant. She was committed to self education and with the encouragement
of her mother she went on to work her way through agricultural college.
This in turn led to her becoming the land agent for Lord Walsingham's
Merton Estate which covered a great tract of Breckland. She was possibly
the first women to hold such a post. Her spirit of independence and
honesty came to the fore in the wake of the First World War. ...
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A.V.Roe
- Alliott Vernon Roe was born in 1877 in Patricroft, Manchester. His
father was a Doctor and his mother was later famous for her work in organising
and setting standards for day nurseries. ...
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Robert
Row - Bob Row began his political career by joining the Lancaster
Branch of British Union in 1934 at the age of 17. The young Bob threw
himself into Blackshirt activity which in those early days attracted much
angry violence from the "Red Front". His District Leader was
Bill Eaton, who was one of the few who had won the Gold Distinction Award
for service to the movement. ...
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Bob Saunders OBE
- Robert Saunders could probably have become Vice President of the
National Farmers Union. However, before the election he announced that
he wanted all those who supported him to know of his support for British
Union and Union Movement. In the 1970s, Bob Saunders was the TV
spokesman for the National Farmers Union and he was awarded the OBE for
his services to farming. ...
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Alexander
Raven Thomson - After Mosley, the leading intellectual
of British Union and Union Movement was Alexander Raven Thomson. In his
most important book ‘The
Coming Corporate State’ (1938), he set out in clear and precise
terms the economic infrastructure that would be put in place once power
was given by the British people. ...
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F.J.P. Veale
- who died in 1976, was a well known member of the Brighton Branch
of British Union before the war. By profession he was a soldier. He was
also a prolific writer and a regular contributor to the "Nineteenth Century
and After", the famous monthly review whose policy was to present objective
and unbiased articles on home and foreign affairs. ...
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T.E.
Lawrence - T.E. Lawrence was born in North Wales
on 15 August 1888. He was the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman,
an Anglo-Irish baronet. His mother was Scottish. He became a legend in
his own time as Lawrence of Arabia - a brilliant active life which ended
in a motorcycle "accident" when he was only 46. Many famous
people attended his funeral: statesmen, writers, politicians. Winston
Churchill wept and called him "one of the greatest beings of our
time." ...
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