Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933

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Mosley published this memorandum because of his dissatisfaction with the laissez-faire attitudes held by both Labour and the Conservative party, and their passivity towards the ever-increasing globalisation of the world, and thus looked to a modern solution to fix a modern problem. But it was rejected by the Cabinet and by the Parliamentary Labour Party, and in May 1930 Mosley resigned from his ministerial position. At the time, according to Lady Mosley's autobiography, the weekly Liberal-leaning paper The Nation and Athenaeum wrote: "The resignation of Sir Oswald Mosley is an event of capital importance in domestic politics... We feel that Sir Oswald has acted rightly – as he has certainly acted courageously – in declining to share any longer in the responsibility for inertia." [30] In October he attempted to persuade the Labour Party Conference to accept the Memorandum, but was defeated again.

In 1977, by which time he was suffering from Parkinson's disease, Mosley was nominated as a candidate for Rector of the University of Glasgow in which election he polled over 100 votes but finished bottom of the poll. [ citation needed] Blamires, Cyprian (2006). World Fascism: A–K. ABC-CLIO. pp.288, 435–. ISBN 978-1-57607-940-9. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021 . Retrieved 14 August 2015. Ten things you didn't know about Mr Keynes". The Standard. 13 April 2012 . Retrieved 25 January 2022. Nicholas Mosley (1923–2017) (later 3rd Baron Ravensdale a title inherited from his mother's family), and 7th Baronet of Ancoats; he was a novelist and wrote a biography of his father and edited his memoirs for publication. Oswald Mosley died on 3 December 1980 at Orsay. His body was cremated in a ceremony held at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, and his ashes were scattered on the pond at Orsay. His son Alexander stated that they had received many messages of condolence but no abusive words. "All that was a very long time ago," he said. [79] Archive and residences [ edit ]a b Rees, Philip (1900). Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890. London: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 9780710810199.

Who was Sir Oswald Mosley?". BBC News. 26 August 2019. Archived from the original on 4 September 2020 . Retrieved 22 June 2020. Worst' historical Britons list". BBC News. 27 December 2005. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009 . Retrieved 21 June 2010. Irene was a "tall and stately beauty" according to her friend Charlotte Greenwood. She was intensely musical and passionate about fox hunting, bridge and parties. She had numerous love affairs within the elite Melton Mowbray hunting clique and had a long relationship with the renowned pianist Arthur Rubinstein, whom she said she slept with on his wedding day. [5] During the Great War she went to a club in the East End of London to sing to the working men and women as part of a voluntary job. And in the last year of the war she went to the gender-specific YMCA to take care of the poor and dispossessed in France. Mosley, Charlotte, ed. (2007). The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters. Harper Collins. p.77. ISBN 978-0-06-137364-0.During this marriage, he began an extended affair with his wife's younger sister, Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, and a separate affair with their stepmother, Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, the American-born second wife and widow of Lord Curzon of Kedleston. [19] He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Ancoats upon his father's death in 1928. de Courcy, Anne (2003). Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062381675. McPherson, Angela; McPherson, Susan (2011). Mosley's Old Suffragette - A Biography of Norah Elam. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-4466-9967-6. In late 1920, he crossed the floor to sit as an independent MP on the opposition side of the House of Commons. Having built up a following in his constituency, he retained it against a Conservative challenge in the 1922 and 1923 general elections. As the wife of a baronet she was occasionally seen in records as Lady Mosley; however by preference always referred to as Lady Cynthia (when used in public with a surname, Curzon/Mosley), her own title as the daughter of a marquess.

a b c The Viceroy's Daughters. ISBN 0-06-621061-5 Library of Congress Online Catalog; retrieved 16 January 2007. Revie a b "Daily Mail". British Newspapers Online. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013 . Retrieved 9 February 2014. After Mosley's parents separated, he was raised by his mother, who went to live at Betton Hall near Market Drayton, and his paternal grandfather, Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet. Within the family and among intimate friends, he was always called "Tom". He lived for many years at his grandparents' stately home, Apedale Hall, and was educated at West Downs School and Winchester College. [14] On 11 May 1920, Cynthia married the then- Conservative politician, Oswald Mosley. He was her first and only lover. [1] In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, a secret pact between Charles Lindbergh who has become president of the United States and Hitler includes an agreement to impose Mosley as the ruler of a German-occupied Britain with America's blessing after a ruse in which Lindbergh convinces Churchill to negotiate peace with Hitler, which deliberately fails – mirroring the dishonesty and repudiation of key Hitler-signed treaties, the Munich Conference Accord and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

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All the New Party's candidates in the 1931 election lost their seat or failed to win in constituencies, instead seeing a unified coalition government which involved the Conservatives, Liberals and a breakaway from the main Labour Party amid the Great Depression. Cynthia Mosley herself did not stand in the election. From then on she drifted away from her husband politically, having no sympathy for his move towards fascism. She died in 1933 at 34 after an operation for peritonitis following acute appendicitis, in London. Her appearance on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs with Sue Lawley in 1989 remains controversial due to Mosley's Holocaust denial and admiration of Hitler. [4] Mosley told Lawley that she had not believed the extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany until "years" after the war, and that she thought the official death figure of six million Jewish victims was too high. [29] The broadcast of this episode had to be rescheduled several times because it kept coinciding with Jewish holidays [26] and prompted hundreds of complaints to the BBC. [30] In 2016, a writer at the BBC described it as the most controversial of all Desert Island Discs episodes. [31] Her choices of music to be played on Desert Island Discs were: Symphony No. 41 (Mozart), "Casta Diva" from Norma ( Bellini), "Ode to Joy" ( Beethoven), Die Walküre ( Wagner), Liebestod ( Wagner), "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from Carmen ( Bizet), " A Whiter Shade of Pale" ( Procol Harum) and Polonaise in F-sharp minor ( Chopin). [32] During their marriage, Lady Cynthia's younger sister, Lady Alexandra, was a mistress of Oswald Mosley, as was, briefly, their stepmother, Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston. [5] Electoral defeat and death [ edit ] Mosley was shunned in the British media for a period after the war and the couple established their own publishing company, Euphorion Books, named after a character in Goethe's Faust. This allowed Mosley to publish and Diana was free to commission a cultural list. After his release from jail, Mosley declared the death of fascism. Diana initially translated Goethe's Faust. Other notable books published by Euphorion under her aegis included La Princesse de Clèves (translated by Nancy, 1950), Niki Lauda's memoirs (1985), and Hans-Ulrich Rudel's memoirs, Stuka Pilot. She also edited several of her husband's books. de Courcy Anne (2001) The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters Orion Publishing Group, London, ISBN 978-0-06-621061-2 ISBN 0-06-621061-5 The Viceroy's Daughters..., Abstract