Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-13

emergency meeting Of the parliament
tary party, and meantime told his or
ganizerS to get election literature ready
in case the big blow was coming But
by the time the Labor men assembled
the government leaders knew that the
moderate Tory leaders in control of the
Tory machine had pointed out to the
die-hard element that the last thing
they, the Tories, wanted, was to take
over the twin babies of unemployment
and India at this stage. Let 'em carry
their babies for a while longer" the
die-hards were told.
Reassured, therefore, they called their
wild men to order. Mosley emerged
pledged to support the governmental
the time of his resignation he had
openly challenged on the unemployment
issue: The party shall judge between
u.s." he had said in effect. The official
Labor organ was most friendly to him.
He had a wonderfully good press all
round. Thomas may have said hard
things about him in private, but the
elder Labor statesman, Lansbury, an
nounced publicly that on the question
of socialism there was no difference at
all between Mosley and the rest of the
government, while Ramsay Macdonald
fastened to inspire the statement that
now the naval treaty was out Of the
way he intended personally to interest
himself actively in unemployment.
Mosley smiled his reticent, secret
smile. For a rebel minor minister he
had done pretty well for himself. When
the men you challenge and affront
hasten to pacify you and smooth you
down things are on the move.
Case Fully Presented.
Young Scipio-MoSley took steps to
state his case in the widest circulated
OF the Sunday papers, and also had q
'talkie" interview done for broadcasting
over movie" theater chains.
He emerges in sharp outline now, the
hope Of the Left bloc, the champion of
socialism in our time, the man Of noble
renunciatory gestures, representative of
the younger generation, leader Of the
New Guard bound by the mere virtue
Of youth presently to take over the reins
OF power from an Old Guard who have
fought and waited so long for power,
and now, rather tired and old, grasp 1t
too late, when the vigor and daring of
youth have gone.
Oswald Mosley comes of the squire
archy and owns around 1000 acres Of
the soil Of England. He is the sixth
baronet. The fortunes of his family
were founded in the sixteenth century
by an astute capitalist who became lord
mayor of London in 1859. The family
always had been Tory until young
Oswald came upon the scene.
He was educated at one of England's
exclusive public schools and went on to
the military college at Sandhurst, and
so on into crack cavalry regiment and
on to the flying corps. This was war
time. He did nothing distinctive In the
war and in the last war year broke into
politics and got into Parliament as
Tory under the coupon system devised
by Lloyd George to insure smashing
victory for his coalition.
Nothing was heard Of him until 1920.
In that year he broke into the social
news. He married Lady Cynthia, the
second daughter of the Marquis Curzon
Of Kedleston, secretary Of state for for
eign affairs and a nobleman of over
whelming pride and presence, who went
all through life under the illusion that
the eighteenth century had never ceased
to exist.
The marquis was not enamored of his
son-in-law. Oswald Mosley returned the
compliment, but went one better by Bit
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