In his extrordinary career as soldier, politician, socialite, international sportsman, he has known most of the prominent people of his time... a spectacular career. - George Murray "Daily Mail".
Oswald Mosley’s rise to political prominence was meteoric. When elected to Parliament, he was the youngest M.P. the House had seen in 200 years. Although born an aristocrat, he became the Labour Party’s champion for change and a Government Minister with a special responsibility for reducing unemployment during the Great Depression. When his proposals to get Britain working were rejected, he became the only British Minister ever to resign on the all-important issue of unemployment.
Later he formed the British Union to implement full employment and prosperity for all the people as modern technology increased the productive power of industry and commerce. As Britain rushed headlong to fratricidal war in the 1930s, Oswald Mosley alone argued articulately for peace with honour under the slogan ‘The War on Want is the War we Want’.
Mosley was a man of outstanding intellect, courage and charm. This earned him many powerful enemies and in 1940 he was imprisoned without charge or trial. After World War Two he was back with a vengeance advocating an alternative to both Communism and Capitalism – and what was then to become his enduring theme of making Europe one nation.
During his long life, Mosley met just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelte and Lloyd George. Leading society hostesses such as Lady Cunard, Mrs Randolph Hearst and Nancy Astor. He knew Beaverbook, Northcliffe and Rothermere: the three most powerful press barons of their day. Authors like Compton Mackenzie and Henry Williamson were among his friends. And of course, Mosley had a unique personal insight into the characters of Hitler, Mussolini, Goering and the Goebbels.
On reading this book Michael Foot, Leader of the Labour Party during the 1980s, commented: “He came near to diverting the whole course of British history…What Mosley so valiantly stood for could have saved his country from the Hungry Thirties and the Second World War”.
Oswald Mosley’s rise to political prominence was meteoric. When elected to Parliament, he was the youngest M.P. the House had seen in 200 years. Although born an aristocrat, he became the Labour Party’s champion for change and a Government Minister with a special responsibility for reducing unemployment during the Great Depression. When his proposals to get Britain working were rejected, he became the only British Minister ever to resign on the all-important issue of unemployment.
Later he formed the British Union to implement full employment and prosperity for all the people as modern technology increased the productive power of industry and commerce. As Britain rushed headlong to fratricidal war in the 1930s, Oswald Mosley alone argued articulately for peace with honour under the slogan ‘The War on Want is the War we Want’.
Mosley was a man of outstanding intellect, courage and charm. This earned him many powerful enemies and in 1940 he was imprisoned without charge or trial. After World War Two he was back with a vengeance advocating an alternative to both Communism and Capitalism – and what was then to become his enduring theme of making Europe one nation.
During his long life, Mosley met just about everybody worth knowing. Politicians like Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelte and Lloyd George. Leading society hostesses such as Lady Cunard, Mrs Randolph Hearst and Nancy Astor. He knew Beaverbook, Northcliffe and Rothermere: the three most powerful press barons of their day. Authors like Compton Mackenzie and Henry Williamson were among his friends. And of course, Mosley had a unique personal insight into the characters of Hitler, Mussolini, Goering and the Goebbels.
On reading this book Michael Foot, Leader of the Labour Party during the 1980s, commented: “He came near to diverting the whole course of British history…What Mosley so valiantly stood for could have saved his country from the Hungry Thirties and the Second World War”.
