a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3cs4g9OS5fbJow2ekMzfWumZeUCXsmz7Sp07aJcYZFGN5IySJC2q4PmHBZCrfMmxXjKQhENWgLwhh6VyBBIQ2FPmhyjQL7ZPyY281j8R6xYLem-XfoIIgI062gy2CDEeETL_lC-kVvLK/s1600-h/mosley.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 169px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364377685407757842" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3cs4g9OS5fbJow2ekMzfWumZeUCXsmz7Sp07aJcYZFGN5IySJC2q4PmHBZCrfMmxXjKQhENWgLwhh6VyBBIQ2FPmhyjQL7ZPyY281j8R6xYLem-XfoIIgI062gy2CDEeETL_lC-kVvLK/s200/mosley.jpg" //aLast Saturday I wrote about Market Harborough's home-grown Moseleyite candidate a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/07/noel-symington-and-night-climbers-of.html"Noel Symington/a. But it seems that Mosley himself also visited the town.br /br /I recently bought Mike Hutton's book a href="http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=7613amp;ProductID=8194"Around Market Harborough Between the Wars/a. It is largely nostalgia porn - to which I am hugely susceptible - but there is also some interesting text.br /br /Hutton writes:br /blockquotepThere is no doubt that many among the upper class had a certain sympathy with Nazi Germany. A meeting held by Sir Oswald Moseley em(sic)/em, at the Assembly Rooms, suggests that the far-right policies also appealed to a far wider audience./ppSome five hundred attended his firebrand address, given on behalf of the British Union and National Socialist Party. He spoke for almost two hours without interruption. The audience, who had paid 2s 6d on the door, were largely supportive. A heavy police contingent and a team of his own black-shirted henchmen ensured there was no trouble. Moseley em(sic)/em left to long and enthusiastic applause./p/blockquotepThis meeting took place in 1937. /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-2742300846062839786?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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