Abstract
On June 29, 1932, Harold Nicolson wrote to Oswald Mosley, founder of the New Party, and later, of Britain’s most infamous fascist group, the British Union of Fascists (BUF), to comment on the first draft of Mosley’s manifesto, The Greater Britain:
It seems to me that you sometimes shift the key or tone of your remarks from the constructive essay to the destructive platform manner…. [T]here is a Nazi note, a yellow press note in these denunciations [against Jews] which will cause many people to blink and to question your seriousness. It is so easy to tone down that sort of statement by a short qualifying phrase. English readers are always impressed by propagandists who take off their boots before they start kicking below the belt. (qtd. in Skidelsky 379–80)1
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© 2012 Lara Trubowitz
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Trubowitz, L. (2012). Philosemitic Fascists and the Conspiracy Novel. In: Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902–1939. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391673_3
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