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~ tall young aristocrat with q
Sonorous voice, an un-English
fastidiousneSs, an air of irony and a
a twist of the mouth under its dandiacal
mustache lends an expression at once
supercilious and sophisticated.
For six years he has roasted like a
gilded cuckoo in the rough nest built
by Labor's old guard-rooSted there and
within the last IL months brought in
his wife also, one Of England's loveliest
and most elegant women.
Until two years ago no one took him
very seriously. And until that dramatic
and exciting afternoon In late May,
when he suddenly arose on his long,
slender legs and tapped his dark wings
and voluntarily took flight from the
ministerial heart Of the tumultuous
Labor nest no one quite realized his
potentialitieS or what occult forces he
might be able to command or what
conceivably he might mean.
No one knows now-quite. Circurn-
stances, in this matter, count for so
much. All that is pellucidly clear is
that he IS a portent. He is ominous
He Is challenge. He Is the young ad-
venturer who has been daring enough
to rub the socialistic lamp, which no
other responsible member Of the present
Labor Socialist government has dared
to lay finger on; and at the misty mon
ster 1t has glimpsed at the rubber's
back the entire ministerial team has
started back in alright.
Given prosperity, of course. Sir Os-
wald Mosley, M. p, chosen by Ramsay
Macdonald to occupy the minor minis
terial post OF chancellor of the Duchy
OF Lancaster, would not amount to a
row of beans in the island life. But the
same remark applied to Robespierre, to
Lentn, to Mussolini in their respective
fields. Given this, given that, the story
OF mankind would not be what it is.
Sir Oswald Mosley knows his history.
revolutionary, political and imperialistic,
back to that young and impudent
Roman, Sc1pio, whom he so closely re-
sembles in outline. Scipio saw his OPP
portunity in Hannibal, who for years
had ravaged the Italian peninsula and
precipitated crisis after crisis in the
upper and the lower chambers of the
republic OF Rome, until the rulers Of
Rome were ripe to be stampeded by the
ambitious young careerist. Scipio-and
were stampeded (unluckily for Hanni-
bali. Economic crises are the Han
nibals Of the scientific age, and what
the formidable Carthaginian was to
Rome and Scipic. unemployment today
Is to England and Mosley.
Glance at Political Crisis.
In considering the Mosley phenomenon
and what 1t may possibly portend it is
perhaps most illuminating to glance
again at the political crisis which ne
precipitated (and which has only been
postponedl before taking a closer look
at this odd Socialist, with his aristocratic
family connections, wealth and land
owning traditions, and Lady Cynthia,
his superbly beautiful wife, daughter OF
the most magnificent marquis England
has known for century, and his first
marchioness, the daughter Of the late
MIR. L. z. Letter of washington.
A crisis had arisen over the goveru-
ment's unemployment policy. In this
way: The Labor party had promised the
electorate that IL they were returned tc
power they would cure unemployment.
They knew how The electorate re-
turned them, not to power, but as the
strongest single party In the House OF