Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, was a British politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow from 1918 to 1924 and for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931. He founded the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932 and led it until its forced disbandment in 1940.
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- Westminster
- Educated at
- Winchester CollegeWest Downs SchoolRoyal Military College, Sandhurst
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Trending topics shown first"Feudalism worked in its crude and inequitable fashion until the coming of the Industrial Age. Today the Feudal tradition and its adherents are broken as a political power and in most cases are ignobly…"
"If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist."
"Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job."
"Living financially and economically on American charity, selling up the house to the Yanks when he won't pay any more charity out. Are you content to be occupied and protected by American aeroplanes? …"
"was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threaten…"
"I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics."
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1896
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