Mosley, the Jews and the Press Barons

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THL LATEST revelations about Sir Oswald Mosley are interesting are they not? His style of answering his 1940 interrogators contrasts sharply with that assumed when giving press conferences in the sixties and seventies.
At the latter, as I well remember, Mosley deployed considerable charm and skill in disarming questioners. Such technique also enabled him to avoid telling any direct lie.
But in 1940 he held nothing back, particularly as to the ease with which he had raised large sums of money in Britain and from abroad, especially Italy, for his British Union of Fascists. The late Lords Nuffield and Rothermere were among his most generous, but studiously secret, supporters.
Rothermere's Daily Mail, however, Withdrew its editorial support under threat from some of its principal advertisers. The Daily Mail was extremely right wing in those days and was said to have gained circulation among upper class Catholics in England because of being more pro-Franco during the Spanish Civil War than any other national newspaper.
In fact, most of the media, with the exception of the BBC, were not only pro-Franco but were anxious not to offend Franco's German and Italian allies. Hugh Thomas, in his book on the Spanish Civil War, quotes Geoffrey Dawson, editor of The Times. as saying "I did my utmost, night after night, to keep out of the paper anything that might have hurt their (the Germans') susceptibilities."