SIR OSWALD MOSLEY: ‘I went to see him [Lord Rothermere] in a hotel he frequented, and found him in a relatively modest apartment, an imposing figure of monumental form lying flat on his back on a narrow brass bedstead; it seemed an incongruous setting for one of the richest men in the world.

Lord Rothermere explained that he was in trouble with certain advertisers, who had not liked his support of the Black shirts (British Union of Fascists), and in company with many other people had now heard of the tobacco business and liked it still less.

This was war, and I reacted strongly. The card to play with Rothermere was always his brother Northcliffe, whom I had never met but who was a legend for his audacity and dynamism.

I said: ‘Do you know what Northcliffe would have done? He would have said, ‘One more word from you, and the Daily Mail placards tomorrow will carry the words: ‘Jews threaten British press’ ‘; you will have no further trouble’.

The long struggle fluctuated, but I lost. He felt that I was asking him to risk too much, not only for himself, but for others who depended on him.

He was a patriot and an outstanding personality, but without the exceptional character necessary to take a strong line towards the end of a successful life, which might have led to a political dog-fight.

In my view, the matter could have been quite reasonably settled if he had stood firm.’ – MY LIFE by Oswald Mosley (1968).

QUOTE: ‘Control of the media is in the hands of the perpetrators.’ ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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