Pro-Nazi Daughter of British Peer on Way to England
AMBULANCE WAITS LONDON, Jan. 2. Miss Unity Freeman-Mitford, the pro-Nazi daughter of Lord Redesdale, and a close friend of Hitler, is expected at Folkestone to-morrow. - A ambulance is standing by. Miss Mitford left Germany via Swilz-j erland by a specially-chartered ambu-j lance train. Her -mother and sister] are accompanying her for the re-j mainder of the journey. Miss Mitford was reported some timd ago to be in a private hospital in GerJ
many, and there were unfounded rei ferences to her having attempted td commit suicide. At the time of the Czechoslovakia:* crisis, Miss Mitford was detained by j Czech officials she had attempted to drive her car through a military i zone. Her camera, films and notebook were confiscated. She , was recently booed in London for wearing a swastika, and was roughly handled by antidemonstrators. Miss Mitford’s sister is the wife oi £ir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascist organisation. They were married in Munich, and Hitler is reported to have attended the wedding.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 3, 4 January 1940, Page 8
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