[…] farmer and botanist J. E. Hosking; the poet and author Edmund Blunden; the historian Arthur Bryant, whose 1939 book Unfinished Victory was a paean of praise to Hitler (and can never, in my experience, be found alongside Bryant’s patriotic histories in second-hand bookshops); and Philip Mairet, editor of the New English Weekly, a periodical […]
[…] Destiny sounds like the name of one of his minor Super Heroes – ‘Here comes Captain Infinity and Destiny’ – and carries too many overtones of A. Hitler and his crew of dotty psychos. Kok’s contempt for democracy, all too characteristic of our European elites, evokes the same echoes to me. The two books […]
[…] schools. Thanks to a leg-up from the Thuringian Nazi Party in 1930 Gunther was appointed to the University of Jena with his inaugural lecture being attended by Hitler himself. Through his work, which set out to prove the racial superiority of the Aryan race both theoretically and physically – he had been involved in […]
[…] Union of Fascists in 1932 until possibly as late as 1950, and had been a prominent and vocal ‘fellow traveller of the Right’, advocating a settlement with Hitler in 1937-1940. He believed that Britain should have no strong commitments to Europe. Like David Stirling, Lord Lucan, Aspinall and ‘Tiny’ Rowland later, Lymington also had […]
[…] to be characterised by a malignant and evil form of capitalism in which cartels and big business had too much power. Whether or not industrialists had helped Hitler into office they had become one of the props to his regime. So given that the pacification of Germany was central to international security after the […]
[…] remarkable ability to motor forward on the belief of the participants long past the point when they should have collapsed; and the actions of ‘great men’, from Hitler to Bush, have precipitated changes that might otherwise not have happened for years or perhaps decades. Neither Carlyle nor Marx were wholly right: there are great […]
[…] take over leadership of the ex-serviceman movement. By May 1921 the Royal British Legion was up and running. There would be no British Mussolini and no British Hitler. Beamish (a candidate for the latter) founded the Britons Society and moved to Rhodesia. This coincided with Pemberton-Billings’ exit from national politics. Although he lived until […]
[…] the Commonwealth were truly at war sixty years ago and apparently likely to lose, it was a morale boosting part of our arsenal: e.g. the ditty ‘ Hitler has only got one ball. The other is in the Albert Hall.’ This is one reason why, as others have pointed out, government and/or media-inspired ‘Fear […]
[…] a long account of, and attack on, Catholic groups which support the Nicaraguan government against the contras; issue Sept/Oct 1989 is entirely devoted to Austrian opposition to Hitler, and begins, ‘The Masonic peace of 1919’ (!) KOP is 4.00 per year, from 157 Vicarage road, London E10 5DU. KOP also has an interesting, if […]
[…] more urgent. The Labour Party was in coalition with the Conservatives while the Communists remained apologists for Soviet foreign policy, even when Stalin had allied himself with Hitler. Orwell hoped that out of the unrest caused by hardship and defeat would emerge a new Socialist movement, uniting working class and middle class, in the […]
