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

anyway and 20 also did the settled por-
ton Of the estate, valued at more than
81 ,000, 900 against the $50, 900 which was
all old Sir Oswald could dispose Of as
he liked.
He took title and property-he al
ready had inherited $500, 900 under his
grandfather's will. For her part Lady
Cynthia had inherited $4,000 a year as
her share OF the Letter fortune and
$1,000 q year under the will Of her
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Letter. Nothing
has been heard Of her vow, uttered in
the first flush of her conversion to So
cialiSm, to be known as plain Mrs.
MoSley."
Both could delicate point, this, but
necessary to correct orientation of
these personalities--haVe rejected the
large sums which have come their way
owing to the workings of the capitalist
system, which they bitterly condemn and
seek to destroy. But they have resolute-
ly retained them, and they determinedly
enjoy to the last lick Of the platter, in
their spacious English homes and in the
Fairgrounds Of the cosmopolitan smart
sets abroad. the comforts, privileges and
luxuries to be derived from q combined
income of more than $4,000 a year.
once Socialist, Lady Cynthia began
to look into conditions in the great
She had had but the vaguest and re-
hottest conception. She worked In an
ONCE for So a week; she worked for a
Few months on the land; she studied at
school Of economies: she went SUM
ming. These adventures neither rough
ened her hands nor brought creaseS to
that ivory brow. but they helped her to
thrash things out for herself" as abe
put it.
TT tnot, a no,,oIo 80 .n~.a A. -.
Mosley into Parliament as q Labor
member He managed it In 1926. Lady
cynthia took the electoral field in the
summer OF last year, won an industrial
district away from q Tory child OF the
lament.
Up to 1927 nobody took Mosley seri-
ously. His own party colleagues smiled
az MIN. He was universally distrusted.
rev thought him sincere. But he dis
played unsupported powers Of work. He
also cultivated Ramsay Macdonald and
became his constant companion at home
and on his travels. He trimmed his
sails to varying political winds.
Foreign Policy Fades.
Foreign policy, as a i've domestic
issue. had faded In England with the
fall Of Lloyd George and the death Of
MARQUIS Curson. Besides, Ramsay Mac
donald regarded foreign policy AS his
own special province, and ne II q Jealous
man. Nothing more was heard from
Oswald Mosley, the erstwhile AUTHORITY
on foreign policy, upon this subject.
Finance became the issue Of the day
with the re-emergence Of debts and the
advent Of the Dawes plan. Oswald
Mosley turned to finance. he was now
commonly referred to In the news
papers, the clubs and the salons "a a
financial expert and, indeed, the only
man In Labor circles who could possibly
take Philip Snowden's place II aiiythine
urom quarrel with Ramsay to some
thing more serious) should happen to
But "our Philip" IL not 90 easily
ousted. He assumed command in Ia.
boris financial field and no one Alec
could or dared attempt to intrIide a
nose into the sacred financial pastures
This becoming plain. Sir Oswald bios
Somed forth as q brilliant economist
ana Labors one and only hope In the
neld OF the solution of the unemploy-
ment problem. 1t was q shrewd gam
pie and, the gambler doubling up, re-
aforementioned.
In estimating what Englands Scipio
may mean tomorrow 1t Is essential TO
realize that In this island political
parties always evolve to the Left, AND
That Socialism is interpreted by the
voting masses In terms, not Of a cause
or principle or doctrine, but Of a
PERSONAL---VERY. q Macdonald, q Jim
Thomas, or an Oswald Mosley. It is
not beyond the bounds of probability
that the masses one day in the near
future will swing to "Comrade Tom"
Mosley and clamor for him to save
them from the fate to which (apparents
iy) humorous and now inherentIv
conservative Macdonald, q Thomas ana
Snowden have philosophically con.