STORM OF PROTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1943, Page 3

STORM OF PROTEST

AGAINST RELEASE OF MOSLEY RAISED IN GREAT BRITAIN (By Telegraph—-Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 19. A deputation said to represent about 20,000 London factory workers visited No. 10 Downing Street and the Home Office and handed in a petition protesting against the release of Sir Oswald Mosley, which was described as a gross betrayal of the cause for which the United Nations are fighting, and a stab in the back to the British people. Numbers of workers in Manchester passed a resolution against Mosley’s release. The Minister received a large number of protests by telegraph from the provinces. “If the Government believed the country would accept its decision to release Sir Oswald Mosley without question, it misread the public mind,” says the “Daily Herald” in a leader.

“Sir Oswald Mosley may have been a very feeble imitation of Hitler and Mussolini, but he did try to organise in Britain a uniformed Fascist organisation, and he did preach poisonous doctrines against which democracy is still waging a mortal struggle. Sir Oswald Mosley was detained in the nation’s name, and his release must have the nation’s agreement.”