Foreign News: Fine Flame

Centuries of parliamentary tradition have left His Majesty's realm with almost no political plug-uglies, millions of loyal subjects overwhelmingly convinced that violence has no place in politics. Last week svelte, high-waisted Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, rich Fascist, decided to reform his Black Shirt movement into two sections. Members of the first or so-called "elite section" must be firm believers in violence as an instrument of party policy.

Elite British Black Shirts, Sir Oswald said, will be "something resembling the Schutzstaffel," Adolf Hitler's elite Special Guards. "They alone will be entitled to wear the...

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