MOSLEY IN PRISON

Evening Star, Issue 23651, 10 August 1940, Page 15

MOSLEY IN PRISON

BREAKFASTS ON PORRIDGE Sir Oswald Mosley, now .No. 2401 m Brixtou Prison, where he is interned, is living on little more than the prison diet. Most of the 100 other Fascists in Brixtoa send out for wine, beer, tobacco, and special foods which people under detention have the right to do. Every morning Sir Oswald has a breakfast of porridge and a pint of tea in his cell, which is in a separate wing from the ordinary prisoners. He rarely sees othar members of the British Union. He is allowed one visitor a -week, and till her arrest it was always from his beautiful wife, the former Mrs Bryan Guinness, who is a daughter of Lord Redesdale and sister of Unity Mitford. Some time ago Lady Mosley brought her husband a radio set in the hope that he might be permitted to have it in his. cell, but under prison regulations this could not ba allowed. Captain A. H. M. Ramsay, M.P., who used his privilege to appeal to the House of Commons, is now boused in the hospital wing of the prison. He has not been well. It is reported that he suffers from claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces) as the result of shock he. received when severely wounded in the last war. Unlike Sir Oswald Mosley, Captain Ramsay does exercise his privilege of sending out for small luxuries. He has a half-bottle of white wine brought in daily. Twenty of the detained Fascists have been transferred to Liverpool, but there have been a considerable number of new arrivals at Brixton. Twelve armed police officers patrol regularly outside the prison. Warders in the gaol have siiown great tact in handling the Fascists and they have averted scenes by carefully segregating them. The Fascists are allowed nut on the parade around at different times from ordinary prisoners. Th?re was an occasion when several Fascists were taken to the bathrooms while a number of prisoners were there. Some catcalls and booing occurred before the remand prisoners were led out. Any Fascist who gave the Nazi salute in the prison would immediately _ be made to clean out his cell as punishment. Brixton has a “ luxury ” cell consisting of two rooms, which may be occupied on payment of 5s a week. Sir Oswald Mosley and Captain Ramsay have not asked to occupy it, and the quarters remain empty.