ANONYMITY-HIS FAVOURITE MASK...
MUFFLED in a heavy overcoat, he drow
hardly a stare from the Sunday sight- seers as he wondered abroad in the thin Moscow sunshine.
In the fashionable Hotel National he ant unnoticed ovor his Georgian wine and caviare na young Russians stomped around him to Dixieland strains.
No protocol marked his coming. No strolling Mus covite could ever have guessed that his presence there mude a little sliver of history: the first visit to the USSR by a member of the British Royal Family since the Re- volution.
Thin pleazed him. The smile. was almost grateful on the face of this rather intense, earnestly good-looking young man of 38,
Which fa atmoat the whole point about GeoTur Itearyl Hubert Lascelles, cousin of the Queen, Seventh Earl of fare- wood.
SA
The anonymity, which he car- not always win readily, meant that he had been accept cent a ruite different level that matt:re to him at least as much
As a professional,
Royal blood
For the Seventh Earl is alan one of the world's leading musical administrators; a tep opera man and, since lust year, the hard-working artistic diree- for ut the Edinburgh Inter- national Festival. He was the Arst aber of the Royal Fadly to shape for himself o teal careir, based on hi own expert knowledge.
the
In an odd kind of way, legend of titled case Is almost more easily sided for this earl behind the Iron Curtain Than
at home,
When first he went to work 1.1 Covent Garden, Lord Hare- wood has revealed, the only real lear of the musical Establish- ment wes that they would be on the accused of taking him strength of his time.
Even now, when he returns fum abroad sometimes, there
nr those who ask. In the way one has always been red L making an English Lord, whe- ther it has been business or pleasure.
The last time 1 happened, just before Christmas, there was an understandable note of asperity in his voler as he re- plied:
"I have slept in six different places for the hat six nights. I would hardly call that pleaRUNE,"
There was rarely a nestor ob- jeel terson Ja contemporary
But, on the whole, Lord reality for Dickens-reading Harewood has made his point. Muscovitez. Here was a young la accepted authority: and man of royal blood who has won exhilaratingly clear of the tight, through to responsibility not restrictive little world of because of status; but demite it ecuntry-squire royalty that was and on merit.
ever nearly satisfying enough
for young royal gentlemen of purpose and imagination.
His first appearance on a TV. "Broins Trust" was intended as a gimmick. Soon the producers,
SHE
AND
HE IS THE LEADER OF BRITAIN'S FASCISTS. IS ONE OF THE FAMOUS MITFORD SISTERS, TODAY SHE SPEAKS FRANKLY OF HER MARRIAGE TO THE MAN WITH WHOM SHE ONCE SHARED A JAIL CELL.
This
is
life
WHAT is it like to be married to one of
the most hatod men in Britain? What
is it like to hear your husband cursed by crowds of indignant citizens?
The wife of Sir Oswald Mosley should know. For 25 years she has been married to the leader
of the Fascist movement in Britain.
"He is the most wonderful person in the world," naich Lady Manicy. "ve never met anyone like him." And Lady Mosley, now aged 50, has met some unusual people in her life.
She is one of the six Milford sisters, The others include an- sy, the arbiter of what's U and what's not; Deborah. Duchess of Devonshire; Jessica, a Commun- ist who married her cousin, who was both a Communist and the Chur- nephew of Sir Winston chill; Unity,
who as a chlid etched her bedroom windows
astonished
at bis excellence, were inviting him back as Arst-rate penformer. Now be dors
sixth programmes for formera too.
with
Mosley..
by SUSAN BARNES
white. This would be apurtheld un a huge scale. South Africa can't do it alone.
bave
My husband could have helped them if he had been allowed to. "Hitler solved the problem in Germany. He put the whole country to work. Germany was the only country in the thirties to balance herself economically. People say it was just because rearmament. People tell of such iles.
"What I ac nired was Hitler's extraordinary achievement
out of the depression.
"These blacks have never so much as Invented a wheel by themselves. To suppose that the whites who
lived there should leave and turn it over to the blacks is like saying that the
should prople
leave white America and turn it over to the Indinas.
"Do pro kluk the analogy is getting his country jewelled one given
affected by the fact that 990
African population fo uj the Negro and less than a quarter of 15% of the American popula- con la Indan?" I asked.
with swastikas and who as un adult wore her by Hitler.
His dreana
Their father. Bard Rudeslute, was regarded as something of an eccentric. Possibly becnuse when he thought his daughters needed exercise he would bunt them across country with blood- hounds.
Possibly because in his loath- leg of all "outsiders," he lump ed together volours and nation- alities quite intiiscriminately.
Jessica reports that when one of her cousins married an Ar- gentinian of pure Spanish des- cept her father commented; "I hear that Robin's married a black."
"My father," Lady Moaley anys, "was just a terribly normal Engishmen
In
My sister Unity had a tre- mendius love for Germany. She was also very pairlotle. That's why on the day the war broke out between the two countries, "If the Dutch settlers
she shot herself. She was a war Africa had killed the
bluck casualty. hordes as the American settlers killed the Indians. the ratio wouldn't be so very different Today," Lady Mealey replied.
"My husband thinks problems out very, very carefully.
So generous
hatred for us. But when you're in pollues you largely see your supporters, so you don't realise the hate. And when you are as Courageous as my husband, you may be more hated, but you are
niso nere loved."
Diminished
to
"My husband wanted us make peace with the Germans, because he felt it was a war being fought in Jewish interests, nol British ones.
Jack confidence in their own he ller. It's rather as if they are afraid one is going to convert them. They are immature. They love witch-hunting.
care
"Mature
don't people whether someone is ▸ Com- munist or a Faselst. Left-wing intellectuals may not like un but they are not necessarily the must talented people."
Sacrificed
on
and
Lady Mosley sat tall straight
the allk-covered divan,
"In 1940 when my husband amil 1 were pui la prison, every- one knew we were patriolle people. But the Left were delighted tu suspend Habens to silence a Corpus in order political opponent.
"They sold they would resign from the Coalition if we were released. We were sacrificed to that.
"It
was simply monstrous that my hubsand's patriotism should be questioned by these
Labour politicians. HC had fought in the First World War. "One day at the end of 1941, my brother visited me in Holloway and my husband in Brixton, 'I'm dining at Doron- ing-street tonight, he said. 'Is there anything you'd like me to sau? no reason why we the Jews against
Only that we'd like to be put together."
"He is not anti-Semitic. His movement would never affront anyone's religious feelings. But he simply felt that politically
"Was he distresard by what was happening to the Jews in Germany?" I asked.
It was a subject he was never the least interested in," sald Lady Mosley. "This idea that he ever was antt-Jewish 1 nonsense. People seem to imng- ine him as a thug. He's not a harsh person. He's marvellous to children.
PROFILE
By Simon Kavanaugh
shocks and excitement:
on over determinedly COUTSC
his
Ho founsel stimulation
chosen
By now there was no doubt: he was making a notable km- pression on the musical world, which is tougher and less im- pressionable than it sometimes seems.
It has all worked out de- fiantly well. It takes more than a titled dilettante to navigate to triumphant succesa,
as Lord tones of Schoenberg and Liszt.
Harewood did three years ago, Leeds It is the proot of his achieve.
in on undertaking like the critic fer a Centenary Festival. ment that he can go as a plain working as musle
Ile beyon citizen to Russia, at the personal left-wing magazine,
patron Invitation of the Soviet Govern- to be known as a ment, to negotiate the appear- inuale and musiclans.
per- Then, ance of Tarnous Russian
one day, he slipped formers at the 1962 Festival. into a back pow at the Aldburgh It is no surprise to find so Festival to hear a recital by a purposeful a career well-rooted; beautiful, that young Lascelles had always young Viennese pianist.
afterwords and get i, Tirey talked he sought a fair idea of what from lita.
a royal love story
It knows about it. began. as a less-oge might have been a story with a Or that even Eton schoolboy, tending to shut different ending had himself away with operatic ro Harewood's mother, the Princess from cords, he had an inkling already Royal, been sympathetic
To win his freedom the pro- tradi- the start to the loca of an heir- that a venerable family
bad to for fessional way, he haa In-Une discarding Debrett tion and the rolling acres of
show proof of mattle more than North Yorkshire manor house true love's sake.
inen, And now
the were never going to be enough.
The royal patron is no figure- of head to such bodies as the Musle Advisory Committee of the Britis Council, the English Stage Society and the Royal Manchester College of Muric. gifted, dark-eyed Nor do struggling young per- formers needing a leg up fail tợ
Lond once
Harewood
Wounded
The war may well have pressed thinge further, AL
not Lard
More mettle
So Maria Stein from Vienna, other the daughter of music publisher Princess Royal, who fought for Erwl Stein, went home to ten his right to do it, is content to be left almost alone to do the at St James's Palace; and SUZL
lecul honours al Harewood the young ecuple were keen un every musical occasion together, House, the family home.
Lord Harewood sees little of And, after a fairy-tale wed-
to
Grenadier Guards captain, ding in 1940, a very special kind his 7,000 acres; he cannot wounded and taken prisoner of social life began to revolve there to shape the estate im-
un-
think
£69.000
were
And
he
Then to see about booking the Leningrad Symphony Or- chestra for Britain.
Italy in 1044, he found an
about a quiet twelve-roomed provements for walch to expected opportunity
house in Orme Square, Krn worth of family Jewels
sold last January. things out for himself.
sington. In cap- Searching his heart
He has a job to do, Composers, long-haired and tivity, he found himself in other even foreign, were seen calling Bads it a very adequate reward
striking ways too, One
non- there; musicians famous
the and indeed to be able to sit in musical result is that he now obscure. There was usually Moscow Hali of Unions where comes out strongly and publicly musical committee lady or two Francis Gary Powers was tried, as a compaigner against capital for lunch with the Countess; ond and to listen unrecognised to an punishincat: a royal cart nearer always a wealth of like minds at orchestral concert. the touchline of worldly affates the dinner-parties that involved no protocol, and the Earl BeTV- He is royalty still; but a new than any before him. kind, with ́a musical kingdom. Bul I was always mainly ing from the buffet.
when peace Lord Harewood was becoming I is the proof of Lord Hare- musle. He began,
graduating wood's resolve to do a real job returned, by
st known, too, for his association well that, when he took on the King's College, Cambridge (he with the English Opera Group; Festival directorship, it had to wants that for his children tou, then as the founder and be on his own terms: with a although they are not down for editor of the magazine "Opera."
In 1851 he guaranteed free hand in pro- Eton.)
To the Seventh Ebri, there is gave up his gramme-building.
And, with nothing
of nothing at all special about any moro editorship to join the staff significant his Covent Garden Opera, first as an of this. He is just another busy There will be no cost, com- musically
assistant and professional chap, fortable spate of Beethoven and background than a passionately administrative
as Controller of Opera Which is precisely what makes Brahma at his first Edinburgh operatie grandfather who died then
him special Festival this year. There will be when he was six, he embarked Planning.
it. We were locked up together "The Prime Minister arranged
for another two years, exactly like animals In a enge. But my husband Is no fantastic.
There was over a dull moment. We were so happy just to be to- gether."
"And then people twist his words and say he dislikes the blacks. He could never be so {ll-mannered. He is generous there was He just doesn't want them here. should help "Sometimes," she continued, Germany," "I supposeil that we must be "But thoughtful people like used by people expressing their my husband don't have feeling against foreigners.
"Since tite war, it has been his greatest dream that we should have a united Europe. He thinks with the Empire gone It is our only hope. And then a united Europe could divide Lady Mosley's great blue eyes Africa between black and white, gazed out at the tall trees rising "My husband is not anti- from the elegant square below.
"The Aristocrat Negro. But he realiser that
who sides black people and white people with the people la more alineked lead more rational yes in than anyone clee," she said. reparate countries. It is a mic-
"Do any of the people"--the take, therefore, to mix them. working clansrerent the differ-
"This uncontrolled
between inmigrante
your life and tion is mad. The Jamaicans who theirs?" I arked, looking at the have
here don't
Lapestry carpet like vast Aubusson England. They have a complete which was spread between the ly different standard of behavi- guld - cuvered walls of the problem tat enormously husband begin to fear that time our. Filthy. Overflowing dunt drawing-room. bins. And the noise. Their music.
come
'Like a child'
to
"Does pour husband still feel "And, of course, all the ghost- that the British people will turn ly things that were supposed to, to film for leadership?" I asked, have happened to the Jews in "When circumstances change," Germany happened after 1043. sald Lady Mosley, "things can Ail that about concentration happen very quickly. In May campa is exaggerated.
British turned 1940, the "Before the war when one Churchill with one accord-the walled around Berlin. Jews were man they had kept out for everywhere.
And by the time years." we entered the war, the Jewish "At G4." I said, "does your diminished in Germany because is running out?" "Nune." Fald Lady Mosley they had gradually left.
"No," Bald Lady Mosley. "Our movement is a classicas "Bo there was rebily no ren- "People's minds, as long as they movement. Class means nothing son why my husband to my husband. The working have been concerned with them, keep them active, go on being man senses this at once. It is entirely wrong for people equally brillant
very old.
should
"Originally my husband was to pretend he is anti-Semitic."
until they're
And my husband is very,
a Conservative M.P.. but he Do you and he have Jewish very strong physically. He has
"We have nothing against the blacks, We.almply realise that the problem can only be solved in cold blood, setting emotions on one side. I'm sure ou intelli- gent black would feel the same."
Lady Mosley's face, her hair went over to the Labour Parly friends?” I asked.
extraordinary stamina. Ho drawn smoothly back from the because of the conditions the Lady Mosley made a vague but doesn't do any of the thinga lofty forelicad," was serene and working classes were in.
graceful gesture with a white that malce one grow old." beautiful. She out with her Then in 1931, he resigned hand. "I suppose one
might
As I loft Lady Mosley and hands folded, Niko a chilia in from the Labour Government meet them. I can't think of any descended in the lift, I reflected 'her lap,
because it did nothing to chae straight away."
on something else she had said "It would by far better," she the unemployment problem. Lady Mosley discussed some about her husband- continued. "It Africn, a near- "It really WAS disgraceful others who are not her friends. Ho hrs the most valuablo
should empty continent,
be that in this country supposed "The prople who don't want possession the faculty for sleep. divided rguably absolutely to be no rich there were millions to consort with us because of Ife sleeps like a child. fairly between black and living below the poverty line, our politics are the ones whu
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"Yes. I am happy", he says. "I'm doing the sort of thing that
I like doing and that I know I Arst do better than I would anything
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