BLACK AND RED

Evening Star, Issue 21743, 11 June 1934, Page 9

BLACK AND RED

EXTREME DOCTRINES DISCUSSION IN BRITAIN Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 9. Letters to the Press, interviews, and other protests reveal the unwarranted brutality of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Olympia meeting. Wonder is expressed that many of those ejected were not killed, being hurled down flights of stairs with ruthless kickings. Mr Geoffrey Lloyd, a member of the House of Commons, says he saw several cases of a single interrupter being attacked by twenty Fascists. Ministers are joining in the condemnation of dictatorships. Mr W. ' Ormsby-Gor© (First Commissioner of Works), speaking at Leamington, referred to Sir Oswald Mosley’s meeting and said: “It is dangerous nonsense. Wo cannot have either Sir Oswald Mosley oV Sir Stafford Cripps, or any other ballyhoo undoing what it took our people, with the Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, and the Abolition of Slavery centuries to win.” Sir Philip Cunlitfe-Lister (Secretary of State for the Colonies), addressing the. ' Junior Imperial League, said: ‘‘Force must bo met by force. The majority of our people will never stand for Fascism. The idea is so alien to our character that I do not think our people are likely to be diverted by any circus of foreign origin aiming at dictatorship, whether black or red.” Sir Oswald Mosley has issued a reply to the Press, declaring that a campaign of interruptions had been planned weeks ahead. He alleged that members of the House of Commons were ready to take advantage of Red voilence in order -to combat Fascism, which threatened Conservatism more than it threatened the Socialists. Sir Oswald Mosley added that the Fascist casualties were far more numerous and more serious than those of their opponents.