ARISTOCRAT SOCIALIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1926, Page 7

ARISTOCRAT SOCIALIST.

LADY CYNTHIA'S FRIENDS. NEW YORK, January 14. Because political views in England can become a bitter thing, Lady Cynthia Mosley, who has arrived in New York with her husband, said her adoption of Socialism had cost her many friends. She and her husband had come to the United States to study labour and industrial conditions. They will stand for Parliament at the next election.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Lady Cynthia, second daughter of the Marquis Curzon, and, therefore, undeniably of the bluest blood, is one of those earnest aristocrats who is content to suffer for a new sensation, the fact that she cannot overcome her early advantages, diluting in some measure her sacrifices for her "comrades." It is a modern and very likely a passing phase. The Socialists have a Countess comrade and the Tory Prime Minister has -a Socialist son, who has soapboxed exten"sively, greatly to the amusement of the class to which, he belongs and to the class to which he does not. Lady Cynthia has worked as an office girl, but as everybody knew ehe xvas Lady Cynthia, and she was able to augment her 30/ a week from the parental coffers, there is rather an artificial glamour about it all. She married Mr. Oswald E. Mosley, who has, so far as politics are concerned, gone out of his own elaee for a sensation and a halo. It iippeare likely that the aristocrat Socialists who are bravely facing the misery of being Socialists with large incomes have been reading "All Sorts and Conditions of Men," in which the whole art of chafing one's politics without changing one's heart is set down.