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John Wayne [OP]

2002-11-14 06:25 | User Profile

Anyone familiar with Mosley?

His Earls Court speech of 1939 is one of the finest orations ever given in the English language, imo.

Substitute "America" and "Americans" for "Britons" and "Britain."

JWG

Mosley’s BRITAIN FIRST Speech -- Exhibition Hall, Earls Court, July 16th, 1939

Sir Oswald Mosley

Fellow Britons, tonight the British people are here, (Cheers) and tonight from this great audience will be heard the voice of British people telling Parliament, telling Parties, telling Government something it is time that they should hear. (Cheers.) This is a demonstration of "Britain First" and, therefore, is a demonstration of world peace. (Cheers.) This, the greatest gathering of the English under one roof assembled, tells Government and tells the Parties: "At last we have had enough." (Cheers.) We are here to tell them there is something for them to do here in Britain, and when they fail to do it, as again and again they have betrayed our people, we, the British people in British Union, will do it for them. (Cheers.) Enough we have had of alien quarrels, enough threats of foreign war, enough diversion from what matters to the British people, our own land, our own Empire and our own problems. (Cheers.) We say to the Parties who betray, we say to them here tonight: “When you speak of war we tell you this, if any country in the world attacks Britain or threatens to attack Britain, then every single member of this great audience and of British Union would fight for Britain.” But just as straight this too we tell them. We say to the Parties who clamour for war, we fight for Britain, yes, but a million Britons shall never die in your Jews’ quarrel. (Loud Cheers.) And before you drag a million Englishmen to doom, we of British Union, we, the British people in sacred revolution, will sweep you by the declared will of the British people from the seats of power that you disgrace. (Cheers.)

We will deal with them, every argument they advance, every trick with them, and deal faithfully in this great audience. But before we come to that, fellow Britons, I have something to remind you that you may have forgotten. All of you here tonight, this vast audience here assembled, all we Members of British Union, all we people who hold the principles of this British revolution, according to the Press, my friends, you don’t exist at all. (Laughter.) So every one of you tonight in this great hall is just dreaming that you are here, and when you wake up in the morning you will learn the truth in your precious National Press. You will learn you were not here tonight. You will learn that there was not such a meeting, or if there was, of course nobody at all bothered to go.

My friends, what does it mean? I want those who are not with us in British Union, I want those who come to our creed and our cause for the first time, to understand something of what we are up against; to realise, to begin with, that this great meeting here tonight is the first large indoor meeting for over three years that British Union has been permitted in London (cries of "Shame"), because the halls of this great city are owned by rich Conservatives and the parks of this great city are owned by the Labour majority on the L.C.C., and both of them use their power corruptly to forbid speech to their opponents. Well, I take it as a tribute. I have never tried to forbid them speaking in Britain, or to prevent it in any way. The more they address us, the more they address their fellow countrymen and the more they are seen by audiences of Englishmen, the more support we get for British Union. (Laughter.) There is every kind of corruption that their money power can afford, and they will go to any length to forbid us halls in which to speak. (Cheers.) And then, when they forbid us halls in which to speak, their papers are able to turn round and say: "Of course, they don’t exist. You don’t see them speaking in big halls, you don’t read about them in the newspapers, and, therefore, it’s all imagination that this revolution of the British people is taking place at all."

In fact, my friends, we are faced by a coalition of the money power in Press and in Parliament and in the ownership of the great halls of Britain, who are so mortally afraid of the British people being permitted to hear the truth that to any length they will proceed to forbid even me speaking to them.

Well, fellow Britons, if a Movement which has been born and has run for less than seven years, a Movement started with thirty-two men, without newspapers, without Press, without money, and without resources, with nothing in the world except the English spirit alive and flaming in their souls, if in less than seven years we have driven the Parties together in this corrupt conspiracy to prevent us speaking to the British people, how much longer before we win and they perish? (Cheers.)

Now let me ask anyone here who thinks that we have been unfair when we have attacked the ownership and conduct of the Press of this country, on what grounds do they behave AS they have behaved? Do they tell us any longer that there is no news value in British Union, that the people of Britain have no interest in British Union? If they say that, let them glance round this great hall tonight and say whether or not you British people are interested in British Union. And yet any little Labour politician who cannot fill a schoolroom, any little B.B.C. crooner who bores you on a Sunday evening, (Laughter) any of these little creatures who have been made by the Press of this country, when they fill their little schoolroom, they get a headline in the newspapers the next morning.

We were told there was no news value in British Union. That excuse cannot hold water any longer. What other excuse then has the Press got for its treatment of British Union? There is one excuse, and one alone, a reason of which I am proud. The Press believes that in our principles and in our persons we are so reprehensible that we are unworthy to be reported. I am glad that they think that of us.

But let us examine their position. When they say that a Briton, when they say that people of whom they do not approve, shall not be reported, what then becomes of the talk of the free Press in Britain? It vanishes. There is no such thing. When they say that censorship exists in foreign countries but does not exist in Britain, we give them that lie direct. We say by their own admission, by their treatment of British Union, they admit the censorship of money. (Cheers.) The only difference between the censorship in Britain and the censorship in the foreign countries they denounce is this: In foreign countries, the people concerned have decided by an enormous majority that their Government shall be vested with power to prevent the publication of lies which destroy the life of their nation. But, in Britain, we have censorship given not to any Government, but censorship in the hands of money and money alone, (Cheers) and censorship used by money, not to suppress anything damaging to the life of the nation, but to promote everything that IS damaging to the life of the nation - to sell to the people false news, to sell to the people lies, to push the vested interests, to raise the interest of the faction and the section above those of the people and of the nation.

So, if we have to choose in the modern world between the right of Government elected by the people to rise above even the power of the Press Lords, if we have to choose between that and the right of money to tell Britons what they should know, what they should learn and how they should live, I say: Government of the people, by the people, for the people every time. (Cheers.)

But when they tried these tactics upon us what did it avail them? My friends, it availed them nothing, because the great affairs of this great country are not settled in that square mile that stretches from Fleet Street to Mayfair. We did not go to them to make our appeal; we went to the back streets of Britain, we went to the homes of the people before they denied us great halls such as this in the West End of London. We went to the homes and the streets of the people whence we have drawn our strength and whence ever we draw our inspiration. In their masses and in their thousands the people came to us, and the force and the weight and the fury of the people behind us now rocks the Press Lords on their golden throne. That is why I am proud to have the enmity and the hatred of the Press. It is right that I should be hated by the enemies of the people, because throughout my political life, in a pilgrimage of strife and struggle such as few have known, I have ever stood for the people’s cause, and in their cause I challenge the money power. (Cheers.) The Lords of the Press are right to hate us, but we reply to them: "We are glad we are not among those little politicians whom the Press has made. We, of British Union, have not been made by the Press; we have made ourselves." (Cheers.) Because we had within us the truth, and because we had within us a love of England, our land and her people, our fellow countrymen, our English men and women have come to us in such thousands today that we can say that this Movement is established, this revolution lives, and no power of Press Lords or of money, no material force this world has ever seen, shall hold us down or stay our triumph. (Cheers.) And what have they got? — what have they got except money? What else? We have got the men and women; we have got the thousands of men and women who give their lives to this struggle of British Union. What have they got on their side except the money bags and the Press Lords? Why, if you changed these things over to-morrow and we got their money and their Press, the battle would be over — it would not exist. (Laughter.)

They talk of the coming Election — a fight between several Parties of the British people. Nothing of the kind — a fight between two or three big money combines, that and nothing else — nothing else. Without the weight of money behind the Party machine, in an electoral battle today determined purely by principles and by the number of active workers at our disposal, British Union could fight and beat today the old Parties over the whole electoral field. (Cheers.)

But you know and I know the battle is nothing of the kind — the battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight. So when they speak of Democracy they do not mean government by the people or of the people; they mean financial Democracy in which money counts, and nothing but money.

(Cont'd at website below)

[url=http://www.geocities.com/englishgateway/moselyspeech.html]http://www.geocities.com/englishgateway/mo...selyspeech.html[/url]

Leveller

2002-11-14 11:48 | User Profile

Good post GWC. Welcome to the forum. Mosley was a very interesting character. A WWI veteran, he was imprisoned during WWII for opposing Britains participation (and so was his wife!). There is a mosley site [url=http://www.oswaldmosley.com/]here[/url].

il ragno

2002-11-14 16:03 | User Profile

A valuable piece of history; I'd heard of Mosley, but knew little of him beyond bare-bones info. (I kind of wish you'd chosen a different board id, though, "John", but a tip of the cap for posting this regardless.)

Kudos to Leveller for providing the url, too. Sooner or later, we're going to have to right the wrongs of Jewish history and teach our children & grandchildren who the real heroes were. It will be more than a matter of refurbishing the images of The Men We Love To Hate, but exhuming the words and deeds of many deliberately consigned to obscurity's dustbin - men and women whom the Jews, seeing little propaganda value in their eternal vilification, kicked under the carpet nap instead, assuring us all "they weren't anybody, really". Mosley will be added to my list.

xmetalhead

2002-11-14 17:40 | User Profile

What I find most distressing is that the predicament we're in today, is still the same as in Mosley's time, if not much more worse. The Infidels are closing in on us as we speak and at this point, we can only give our faith over to God Almighty for eternal grace to deliver us.

John Wayne

2002-11-14 21:22 | User Profile

Il Ragno

I think the most glaringly obvious point is where is or who is today's Mosley?

An island with less than 1/3 the population that America has seems to produce great men regularly. Granted, we're talking about 60+ years ago, but nevertheless I don't see anyone in this country at the moment who even approaches Mosley, and that includes the late Doc Pierce on his best day. G.L. Rockwell is worthy of mention, certainly, but he has been gone a long time. I haven't been made aware of anyone possessing similar charisma and the ability to persuade and inspire since then, unfortunately.

I think we need someone to rally behind, imo, rather than continue on as a thousand small splinter groups who spend valuable time and energy chatting each other up. I have not noticed anyone emerging who is truly great. But that's just me, it's entirely possible I'm being overly particular.

RR JWG

PS I have grown exceedingly tired of the contests for "cute" noms de plume on various discussion boards over the years, hence my takeoff on a name we all know and find repulsive.