A Distant Voice Speaks To The Faithful

Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 285, 25 July 1957, Page 7

A Distant Voice Speaks To The Faithful

A new man this week joined such familiar figures as Johnnie Ray, Liberace, Victor Sylvester and Elvis Presley in the disc business. He is a tall man with a sagging frame, a bristling black toothbrush moustache, vivid blue eyes, and a rasping cultured voice. Name of the new recording star: Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, sixth baronet, leader of Britain's prewar, Blaekshirt Fascist Party, now tactfully renamed the Union Movement. At his home in France, Sir Oswald has been recording a number of peppery speeches, which are novvT available to the faithful in England. "You can play them on any ordinary gramophone, and the best idea is to assemble groups of people to listen," said Sir Oswald, plugging the new product. "We are badly off for money," he added, "We hope saies from the records will help." Until his arrest early in the war, Mosley's Blackshirts were a familiar sight in London's East End, and the movement had a brief violent revival ten years ago. But since then less and less has been heard of Mosley. Along with his records in the music stores, a flattering biography, written jointly by several of his paid-up party members, is now on sale in London bookshops. But the faithful have little chance of seeing "The Leader" in person these days. Now 60, he has spent most of the postwar years in Ireland and France, flitting to England only for rare, brief visits. He is a man whose voice comes from afar . . . on a record.