FASCISM

Wairarapa Daily Times, 2 March 1934, Page 5

FASCISM

GROWTH IN ENGLAND DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Thursday. In the House of Lords Lord Kinnoull drew attention to the growth of Fascism. He understood that the British Fascists had ordered 25 armoured motor-lorries, each carrying 20 persons and lined with armour threeeights of an inch thick. They were being financed by industrialists, bankers, some members of the House of Lords, and a certain foreign Power. Lord Esher declared that the hungermarchers and “red-flaggers” were on the same plane as Fascists, while Sir Stafford Cripps, despite cautions by the Trades Union Council, was continuing to teach that Labour must be revolutionary. “It never seems to occur to them that ideas of class warfare and dictatorship can be copied by the more powerful classes, ’ ’ he said. ‘‘ If there is an apeal to force in Britain by Socialists the people will defend themselves as they did in the great strike.” Lord Snell said tlujt he had belonged to Labour since the birth of the movement, and had never heard force advocated. If Labourites indulged in one-tenth of the things the Fascists, with their armoured cars, had done, they would have been put down by the Government. Lord Feversliam, in ' replying, said that there was no such thing as a single united Fascist movement, but five separate organisations. The “Daily Mail” had recently given Sir Oswald Mosley’s movement considerable publicity.' They were certainly receiving strong financial backing. The Home Office was giving attention to the matter, which need cause no undue apprehension.