CENTRE OF RIOT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 21 April 1938, Page 9

CENTRE OF RIOT.

LORD REDESDALE’S FASCIST DAUGHTER.

CROWD'S VICIOUS TREATMENT

LONDON, April 14. Hon. Unity Freeman-Mitford struck a man in the face when he snatched her swastika badge and threw it to the ground in Hyde Park. The badge, which was given to her by Hitler, was lost.

A crowd of anti-Spanish rebel demonstrators then chased Miss Free-man-Mitford with stones. After a scuffle, in which she was kicked, bruised and spat upon, police rushed to her rescue.

They forced a passage through which she made her way to a gate. Meanwhile the crowd shouted: “Dump her in the Serpentine!” “Down with the Nazis!” “Go to Germany, where you belong!” r A daughter of Lord Redesdale, she is a personal friend of Hitler, and an avowed anti-Jew. She contemplates becoming a German national, it is reported. In a “Londoner’s Diary,” in the Evening Standard, it is stated : “When Herr Hitler arrives in Vienna his most ardent English admirer will be there to greet him. Miss Unity Mitford, Lord Redesdale’s Nordic-looking daughter, had a special pass, valid for two persons, given to her by the wish of the Fuehrer and she and Mrs Cochran Baillie left for Vienna. “Mrs Cochran Baillie, like Miss Mitford, is a strongly Aryan type, and her blonde good looks are sure to excite the admiration of the Nazi leaders to whom Miss Mitford will bo. able to introduce her. y

“Miss Mitford and tier sister, Mrs Bryan Guinness, were in ' Cologne when Herr Hitler arrived there after the German Army re-entered the Rhineland in March, 1936. Herr Hitler recognised them at once in the hotel lobby, invited them to join him for lunch and placed them in Field-Marshal von Blomberg’s car when he drove in triumph through the streets of Cologne that afternoon. “Field-Marshal Goering admires the Mitford sisters as much ns the Fuehrer does. Some time ago they both attended a banquet over which he presided in Berlin. “In the middle of the meal the FieldMarshal banged the table and, rising to his feet with a cry of ‘Ruhe ! Rube!’ (Quiet, quiet), proclaimed: ‘I want to sav that I consider Frau Goering, Lady'Guinness and Miss Mitford to be the most perfect Aryan women I have ever seen.’ After this brief pronouncement the great man resumed his seat.”