The Nazi Horst Wessel song could be heard any Sunday in London's Bethnal Green. Frankly Fascist street meetings were attracting larger & larger audiences.
Britain was certainly not going Fascist, but the recent progress made by Sir Oswald Mosley's old friends was a symptom of how sick, politically and economically, Britain was. Young Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt visited some of these meetings. Last week, in the New Statesman and Nation, he reported on what he had seen:
" 'Well, spivs,' the speaker began, 'we all know this society,' pointing at the placard labeled British League of ex-Servicemen, 'is a sham. We are Fascists...
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