Evening star., 1947-10-23
RoWdyL London Crowds
Cheer MosIey Ideas,
Call for His Return
By the Assoeiotsd Press

BY the Assoeioisd Press
LONDON, Oct. 23.-Little dis
orders in the streets of London
East End, to which prancing polio,
horses give a touch Of excitement
have caused some wonder whethe
fascism Is attempting a comebacl
in Great Britain.
| Sunday evening political rallies or
the street corners have becom,
rowdy affairs, with agitators' organ,
izing their followers to shout II
chorus and heckle in the familiar
Fascist way.
On several Sundays there have
been well-timed cries of bring him
pack-we want Mosley!"
Sometimes the crowds shout
"M-O-S-L-E-Y," making it sounc
like a college cheer, and in Other
ways they act like other bands oi
youth who not so long ago were
shouting for a fuehrer or duce.
The man who can decide whether
fascism, or postwar version of it
shall make another bid for political
leadership is 51-year-old Sir Oswald
Mosley, former minister, former in
ternee, who farms a little and pub
lishes political tracts at Ramsbury
In wiltshire.
No Public Clamor.
The demonstrators at the street
corner rallies are calling him. but
the call certainly has not yet become
public clamor. Anti-Fascist ele-
ments, sensing danger, are making
just as much noise and getting ar
rested just as often in the demon
strations which have become fire.
quent street scenes in the crowded
bombed and somewhat underprivi-
legged East End.
Most political observers have an
impression that fascism is by no
means just around the corner in
Britain, but that it could become a
factor II Sir Oswald decides to
emerge boldly from the semiretire-
ment into which he has Withdrawn.
1t Is agreed that If he were to come
to London himself to address one of
the street corner rallies, 1t would be
a sensation calling for many more
mounted police than are being
brought out these Sunday after
Moons.
A belief that he Is surveying the
chances Of making a comeback is
supported by the appearance of a
new Mosley book, ''The Alternative, I"
in which he proposes as a way out
OF Britain's many political and eco
nomic difficulties government by
"hierarchial synthesis.
Proposals Outlined.
He would build state like a
pyramid. with experts performing
clearly defined functions at various
levels-with ever smaller committees,
imposed one over the other up to
the top where leadership body
would WELD the ultimate authority.
He proposes popular elections. and
beside the pyramid of government
he would have. at all levels, officially
designated critics to be known as as
SCISSORS. Mosley describes the hier-
archial synthesis as a development
beyond Fascism or other govern
mental systems.
y Mosley offers a solution Of the
Jewish issue. He would create a
Jewish national home in Palestine
but 1t would be symbol of a home
rather than a state organized to care
for a vast population.
The place for large numbers o1
Jews to live, he suggested, is ETH.
opia. and he expressed belief that
suitable arrangements for controlled
colonization and development of thu
empty land could be made with the
Ethiopian government.
No Defined Reactions.
Palestine then, he said, could be
the spiritual home of a Jewish ma
tion just as the British Isles is the
home and heart Of empire popula-
tions.
There have been no clearly de.
fined reactions to such proposals
but the street corner orators are be-
ginning to take them UP. The re-
ception may help Sir Oswald decide
whether to set out seriously on the
comeback trail.
Mosley's sponsor, but not neces.
sarily authorized spokesman, at Lon.
don's rowdy street corner gatherings
is 32-year-old Edward Jeffrey
Hamm, a bookkeeper. He speaks
f1uently and has talents as a rousel
of emotions. In court October 9
on a charge of violating the public
order act by using insulting Ian.
guage, he pleaded innocent and the
action against him was continued.
The language which the police
found offensive consisted of attacks
on Jews and Communists, whom the
street corner orators have beer
pracketing together.
Reds Accept Challenge.
In the opinion of some British
authorities and editors, the British
league of exservicemen and women
and its Fascist program get atten.
ton out of all proportion to theil
Importance because Of the violent
reactions of opposing groups. Com
munists have taken up the challenge
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