JOINS SOCIALIST PARTY.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15998, 28 May 1924, Page 15

JOINS SOCIALIST PARTY.

LORD CURZON'S SON-IN-LAW. The following letter has been sent by Mr Oswald Mosley, M.P. for the Harrow division, and Lord Gurzon's son-in-law, to the British Prime Minister:— > • • ......

"My Dear Prime Minister,—For' sonic time past I have found myself in warm agreement with the immediate policy and with the ultimate ideals which you express for your party. In the lale House of Commons I supported you in Opposition, and in the present House-I almost invariably agree with 'the'actions ol' your Government and join in resisting the attacks delivered by a variety, or opponents. In these circumstances it appears that my proper course is to apply for format membership of theLabour Party, and to accept, all the obligations which such a step involves. At the; last'two'elections I have been returned as an independent upon a programme similar to, that which you arc striving to.enforce, and with liberty not only to co-operate with men of like aims, but also to form my party allegiance directly the issues and alignments of tlie future were clearly defined. • There can no longer be any.doubt that this decisive moment hasVarrived. 'The battle array of the future is determined. You stand forth as the leader of the forces of progress in.:'their assault upon the powers of reaction. In this grave struggle, fraught with such momentous consequences to so many of our fellow men and women who suffer grievously in pur midst, I ask leave to range mysolf ''beneath your-standard. —Yours very sincerely, Oswald Mpsley." , ', Aaed 27. Mr Mosley is 'the ieldest son of Sir Oswald Mqsley.'Bart.., and is 27.-The King and. Queen and, the King and. Queen of the. Belgians attended his" : wedding -a{ the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, in 1 f>2o, to Lady Cynthia Curzou, daughter of Lord .Cur.zon, who was then Foreign Secretary. He has a son and a daughter. He was elected Coalition Unionist M.P. for the Harrow division in 1918, when only 22, but crossed the floor of the House in 1920, and-at the last two elections-was returned for the same constituency as an Independent against Conservative opponents.