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Revelations of the association be-
tween Stavisky and Jean Galmot,
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1984.
BLACKSHIRT LEADER
REPLIES
"CRITICS IN FRENZY
OF FEAR"
the former French Deputy who died HYSTERIA A TRIBUTE TO PROGRESS
(By Sir Oswald Mosley.)
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Bin mysterious circumstances in
Cayenne in 1928, will revive interest] in Blaise Cendrars's "Rhum."
"Rhum", the story of Galmot's
London. Įmembers volunteer to serve the or- life, came out about three years ago.
Galmot, born in the Dordogne inj Recent powerful support of the ganisation and pay a subscription |1879, was a man of energy and am Blackshirts has produced the results to it, while members of a business
bition. He was the son of a school to be expected.
organisation receive payment for On the one hand, we experienced their services. The authoritarian huaster, and began as a journalist on the "Petit Nicols." He wrote novels a great acceleration in the recruit-principle in both cases is precisely and feuilletons. Even in those days ing of members and a large exten-the same, and I have yet to learn he had £5,000-a-year tastes ona sion of our appeal and organisation. that it infringes alther the law or
On the other hand, the Old Ganga the Constitution. £500 incomer
If the Government decided of Politics were moved to a fresh frenzy of fear and fury by the proceed impartially against all An American Marriage - When he was 26 be married Missalarming rapidity of the Black-shirt voluntary organisations adopting
advance.
the authoritarian principle they Heydecker, the daughter
Mr. Baldwin led the attack on the would find in this country a wide wealthy American Consul in Russie, platform and on the wireless in the scope for their intervention, Simi- with business interests in countries, including French Guiana, safe shelter of the B.B.C.-that tame lar Herdecker objected to Galmot's ex-monopoly of Old Gang rule which wearing of a shirt of a particular- denies Blackshirts the right of re-colour. Our object is to remove. travagance, but pald his debts on
ply. Half a dozen Cabinet Minis-barriers of class by removing dif- The Black. condition that he went to Guiana.
ters and innumerable lesser fry of ferences in dress. There Galmot worked 16 hours
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of Д
many
considerations
govern
to
the.
day and became the rum and busi./the Ministerial ranks followed with shirt, further, is the autward sym- The platform and Parliamentary attacks.bol of a faith which is held with Even Sir John Simon interrupted a religious fervour. Our dress is ness king of the colony.
When hej natives worshipped him.
his record sequence of failure at the certainly not so military as that died they assumed that he had been Foreign Office to instruct us in the of the Salvation Army.
poisoned and raised a revolution.
writing.
wear,
en-
But it is suggested that this in- Even when he was making mil-very domestic issue of the shirts we
struction to Englishmen in the lions, Galmot retained his literary
The Secretary of the.T.U.C. and clothing they may wear shall ap- urge. To the end of his life he used] to rise at 4 ani. to write his novels. other Socialist leaders.appealed with ply only to political movements. So But he was better at business than 4 moving pathos for protection from the vestments of the Church, the the Blackshirts to the "Capitalist" uniform of the Boy Scout, club Government which they spend their ties, and other corporate symbols lives in denouncing. For once they may presumably continue to mations that there is too little. Fiction Respectable Again showed themselves of like mind joy our former freedom.
The Dress Question the conclusion must be that the!
The attitude of the B.B.C. Lewards with their followers who come to
break up Blackshirt meetings and Now the Old Parties do not wear balance has been held fairly even.j Hong Kong, Saturday, April 21, 1934. No wireless service in the world the modern novelist is softening.
That gifted but disreputable crea-when they are ejected howl for distinctive dress; Fascism alone is enjoys such freedom in the ex-
been protection by the police, who are affected by these proposals. So it pression of diverse views, Onture has in recent months
mous attacks.
: coincide with the emergence of the Broadcasting In. Britain all points about which the B. B. rigidly excluded from the weekly normally the objects of their veno-is significant that these attacks Socialist and Tory Peers in British Union of Fascista as A C. is assailed. what the critics broadcast reviews of new books.
Now he is to be reinstated.) themselves is, what In refusing any premature in- 'must ask
Lords combined to demand action have pursued the same practice for into the charter of the kind of control could be substi. Novels may once more be reviewed full-dress debate in the House of serious challenger for Power. We quiry
It is doubtful whether the lifting against Blackshirts with grossly un- the last 18 months withor. let or British Broadcasting Corporatuted for that of the present over the air.
of hindrance. Only when we begin tion Sir Kingsley Wood acts in management: the public interest. That charter casting avowedly an instrument of this ban indicates any slackening true allegations, at least
It of Government. as it is in some in the more than maternal solicitude which would not have been made to organise every constituency to has still three years to run.
shelter of that archaic assembly. by legal and constitutional means is true that the Postmaster-countries: would be repugnant to of the B.B.C. for the morals of its with impunity outside the legal capture a Parliamentary majority
the whole national sense. Nor listeners.
The opposing Presa oscillated be-does the demand arise that General can, if he chooses, pro-would a system such as that in It may be due to several causes, imote an earlier investigation, but some better reason for set-the United States, by which among them the presence of a wo-tween hysterical demands for our organisation should be penalised
broadcasting is exploited by man novelist on the Board of Gov-suppression as a public menace and by special legislation.
At the very moment that the de- ting up elaborate and costly ma-;
our organisation chinery is required than the great advertising firms, be any ernors and the increasing difficulty the publication of absurdly faked
to which more congenial to the British of distinguishing between a modern figures of our membership, which velpoment of kind of harassment
The only good novel and a modern biography or were designed to show that we were should remove the last doubt as to so negligible as to be unworthy of the legal and constitutional nature broadcasting has lately been temperament.
their notice.
of our intentions, the demand is subjected. That there should alternative is the system ander travel-book.
In a rare flurry and confusion of advanced for the first time that be criticism is a sign of public which the B. B. C. works, which
mind and of purpose the Old Gang special action should be taken interest, and the last people to gives the listeners themselves a large measure of indirect con-
Parties laid aside for the moment against us. The moral in very resent it will be those respon trol.
COLONEL FOGEY the sham battle of Westminster to plain; our opponents are excrcised "Our Army to-day is officered by present a united front against the not by our shirts but by our suc- Dustless Outer Space. doddering old dug-outs," declares only real challenge to their betra cess."
sible for the wireless program- mes in Britain. Nor will there!
be desire to avoid an authorita-
tive examination into the man-
To make broad-
ner in which the character has Far out in space are Theen used
Your Daily Smile.
a critic."
nebulae
one
ya) of the nation. In another:
our
The Aimsy plea of disorder aria- country the combination of the ing from the wearing of Black
was shirt will not stand and this Home Secretary in the base of
'n. The
at the prodigious JUST A MATTRESS FOR ME Old Parties against Fascism when the due time darting away
A doctor's advice to 'flu sufferers called the 'Iron Front." In A speech to the Conser-speed of 12,000 to 15,000 miles a jcomes.
the Blackshirts have Commons states that in the last vative members recently Sir second. Their light is redder than is: "Go to bed on half a glass of country John Beith dealt with the main that of similar and nearer masses. whisky, two lemons and a lump of learnt to describe more appropri-six months of last year 22 casos It sounds most uncom-ately that inevitable combination of disorder arose at our meetings points of those who are genuine-Here relativists see direct evidence sugar."
ly seeking for information re- of an exploding universe. Like #fortable. garding the working of the in-locomotive whistle dashing from His the hearer, these distant nebulae stitution he has built up.
FASHION NOTE.
A yard of lace,
Or silk, or tulle, Make a girl a frock,
And a man a fool.
H
ease is not likely to be weaken-lare "howling" down. We see the ed by effluxion of time. No body "howling" as a reddening. From providing a service on the scale this it is concluded that far-away of that of the B. B. C. could hope auper-galaxies are disappearing to be free from continual smp-like wisps of smoke in a breeze. ing. Wireless has to appeal to But sceptica point out that the Improving the Proverb. every variety of taste, and tastes observations are made on the In a London bank the in entertainment are almost as earth, that they are not directly for smoking on duty is multitudinous as the number of measured but merely deduced from dismissal. So there's no Listeners. Taken as a whole. the 'reddening of light. “An effect without a firing objections to the programmes of dust in the atmosphere" explains cancel one another out; what is the physicist. As they struggle
DEFINITION.
as the "Jelly Front."
in the Metropolitan area, AE op. Confusion of Thought posed to 11' cases in the preceding These old gentlemen in the ex-six months. The explanation is citement of their partisanship have very simple, for in the latter of meetings. fallen Into a remarkable confusion perlod our number of thought which it is interesting held was more than double those
held in the preceding period. to analyse.
(Continued on Page 13.)
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In the first place, if the allega- tions made against the British penalty Union of Fascists were true we instant should be liable to prosecution smoke with heavy penaltics under the
existing law. The raising of a "private army", and the drilling of
ECCLESIASTICAL TRIALS
anathema to one listener is the through even the thinnest kaže A reformer is one who makes such a force is expressly; prohibit Proposal For Secret
delight of another, and, since the solar rays are "shifted to the his business to meddle with what the Unlawful Drilling Act, 1819. various programmes are avail-red" in spectroscopic parlance. Isn't his business. able throughout the day, both what if the light of the distant dislikes and preferences can ornebulae had to travel through a
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• WRONG AGAIN.
Courts Rejected.
TIED VOTE ON" MEASURE
London.
dinarily be satisfied by an ad-sim of gas and cosmic dust? A A young Rumenian who appear-and, consequently, we cannot
ed, with severe penalties, under
In actual fact, the harges lovelled against us are entirely untrue.
The Church Assembly at West- justment of wave-length.. What ever is said in disparagement of
mere pinch, as it were, would be ed in an American court was said prosecuted under the existing and
minster has rejected by one tied enough to account for the redden-to be making a large income in effective law,
If the allegations of our oppon-vote a measure proposing to restrict the programmes, they are the ing and hence for illusory veloci-Los Angeles though quite unable
be
best available on any transmises. Professor Harlow Shapley of to write, English. No he wasn't ents were true we could be pro-newspaper reports of Ecclesiastical
sion in the world, and the rapi- Harvard disposed of this aceptia film dialogue-writer. dity with which the number of cism. With the aid of infra-red licences increases affords strik-
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ing evidence of appreciation, Theor heat rays he sampled space for THOUGHT WHILE THINKING. Once it was kiss and make-up; revenue of the B. B. C. depends dust. He found it within a dis-
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on the effectiveness of its res-tance of ten million light-years, now it is make-up and kisa. ponse to public demand, and but not in the outer regions. It
looks as if the remote nebulee are Proverba for Husbands. tested by that criterion the at-
Clothes break the man. tacks can be regarded with Indeed rushing away at more than equanimity.
Conditions of em explosive speeds. There still ret ployment within the B. B. Cmains the theory, that rays on ́s Under Influence. are the concern of the staff, but journey lasting fifty and even 150
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Some men ask a girl to marry
if there were truth in the alle-million light-years lose some of them when they're tight, and some gations of harshness and auto their energy-grow weary. The don't even have that excuse. “ cracy discontent would manifest redness of the nebulso testifies to itself where, in fact, there is that fatigue. Similarly, it is ex-
secuted without any necessity for Court cases of clergymen accused of“ - the Government to seek from Par-immoral conduct. liament fresh powers for this pur-
pose.
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The approval of all three Housca (Bishops, Clergy and Laity) was. Stripped of these direct false required to carry the proposal. This hoods, the case against the British was prevented by a tie in the House Union of Fascists is that our of Bishops. members voluntarily adopt in our organisation an authoritarian, prin
A vote by Houses resulted: House Aishops · Clergy.
For Against
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148
60
Laity .. 122
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ciple and wear a shirt of a partly cular colour.. On the first point, we merely apply to politica the procedure which is customary in Canon A, C, Deane, Proctor of (every business in the country, My the Dean of Windsor, emphasised position and my authority is broad- that the proposed measure would..
both devotion and enthusiasm. plained that the rays of the sun over, the red shift should be pro-ly equivalent to that of a manag-not set up secret courts. There remains the censorship, are "softer" or less energetic after portional to the distance, which is ing director in a business. Our Lord Hugh Cecil. opposing the To hold the scales impartially as they have fought their way out of faxactly what the astrophysicista members accept, my authority" and measure, recalled the case of Arch regards the expression of opinion fiercely Incandescent: interior have observed, "Light is, a queer that of other officers of the Union deacon Wakefeld and auggested is the most difficult of all task through dense layers of gas. In thing queerer than we thought in precisely the same manner that that the "great"body" of "sym- When the allegations that there the case of the nebulas the loss of twenty years ago but I should be members of a business organisa-pathisers" would have been in is too much censorship are set energy would theoretically mant surprised if it is as queer an tion accept responsible authority, dignant that without the security
The only difference in that our of publicity such a man should be:
condemned,"-Router. against the equally strong affir-fest itself in a red shift, More-as that is Eddington's comment.
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