MOSLEY AND HITLER CRITICISED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 238, 9 May 1933, Page 2

MOSLEY AND HITLER CRITICISED

Demonstration in Hyde Park Press Association. —Copyright. > London, May 7. | Thirty speakers addressed a vast crowd at the May Day Labour celebrations in J Hyde Park, amplifiers enabling criticism of Herr Hitler and Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascists, to be carj ried a great distance. j Beflagged and placarded processions, I including a contingent of Oxford undergraduates, with a banner emblazoned, "We won't light." arrived at the Marble ! Arch by se/en routes accompanied by j parties of mounted and foot polic"- marI shading the orderly demonstration. Mr. George Lansbury, leader of the Labour Party, despite Fascist and Hitlerite insignia in the procession, said that the celebration challenged Hitler ism, Fascism, nationalism and all their implications as gospels of decadence and j despair. Labour represented international | solidarity. Lord Trenchard (Metropolitan Police Commissioner) aimed, Mr. Lansbury said, to transform the police into an upper class foiee because he could not trust the working class force to c.ush a Socialist Government. Lord Trenchard's report disgraced himself and the administration. A resolution condemned Capitalist at-| tacks on. toe workers and challenged the , growth of militarism and imperialism. | The crowds then quietly dispersed. Lord Trenchard's annual report, as | Commissioner of Police, foreshadows important changes in the character of the organisation of the Metropolitan Police. The Commissioner emphasises that the requirement for entrance of candidates j for the police force is of the same rudimentary character as a century ago, and j he urges that efforts should be made j to raise the level. j "The ©ld idea that too much mental | development was likely to make a police- | man discontented with his job," he says, "is obsolete. The best brains are essential for the higher posts. The criminal is becoming more skilful, mobile and scientific."