DEEDS BEFORE WORDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1926, Page 7

DEEDS BEFORE WORDS.

LABOUR LEADER’S TITLE, ADVICE FROM HIS FATHER. ADVANCING SOCIALISM; By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 13, 5.5 p.m, London, April 12. “Entirely farcical,” was the comment of Mr. Oswald Mosley in reply to a public suggestion from his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, that his son and his wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, should give up some of their wealth to benefit unfortunates instead of talking of giving up titles, Mr. Mosley added that it was better to utilise his financial means to advance the cause of Socialism, upon which he is spending a considerable amount. When he first joined tho Labour movement, he said, ho was willing to forego the baronetcy should lie inherit it from liis father. Mr. Mosley stated he and his father did not meet now. They had had many differences over their views. “This is just a sillier stunt than usual,” he said. “It does not interest myself or Lady Cynthia, as we are too concerned with really serious matters.” A cablegram from London on April 5 said: Some of the delegates, at the conference of the Independent Labour Party, asked their colleague, Lady Cynthia Mosley, if it were true that she was giving up her title. She replied: “I would like to, but I cannot. I have been called it all my life, and people will continue to do so.” As if to prove otherwise, many delegates persisted in calling her “Comrade Cynthia.” Her husband, Mr. Oswald Mosley, told an interviewer that if ever his father’s baronetcy came his way he would certainly take steps to relinquish it. Mr. Mosley, Hie eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, who owns about 3800 acres, wks formerly a Coalition Unionist M.P., then an Independent, and finally he joined the Labour Party. Ills wife, who is a daughter of the late Lord Curzon, and also has political aspiration, followed her husband into the Labour fold.