La Vérité sur Cette Guerre
London: British People's Party, 1940. 12mo. Wraps. 154 p. 2nd ed. Rees 289. [41803]
"A statement on the war from the British People's Party, founded by the Marquis of Tavistock later the Duke of Bedford. It was opposed to war with Germany. Although (Colin) Cross ("The Fascists in Britain") refers to it as non-fascist, this is arguable. It seems to have had a remarkable capacity for attracting to itself ex-BUF members and sympathisers, like John Beckett, J.F.C. Fuller, John Scanlon, A.K. Chesterton as well as, later, embryo-Nazis like Colin Jordan. It is hardly a coincidence that its membership lists read like a Who's Who of British Fascism; where else at the time, outside the BUF, could be found the same anti-Semitism, obsession with international financiers, belief in the efficacy of social credit and other 'funny money' panaceas, sympathy for Nazi Germany, and latent authoritarianism masquerading as parliamentary reform" - Rees.
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