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Britain Extends Ban on Political Parades for Three Months

September 16, 1937
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THE GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY EXTENDED FOR THREE MONTHS ITS BAN ON POLITICAL PARADES THROUGH THE CITY’S EAST END, THUS SCOTCHING FASCIST PLANS FOR A MARCH ON OCT. 3, ANNIVERSARY OF LAST YEAR’S RIOTS PRECIPITATED BY A PARADE OF SIR OSWALD MOSLEY’S ADHERENTS.

A STATEMENT BY THE BRITISH UNION OF FASCISTS, ORGANIZATION WHICH SIR OSWALD HEADS, TERMED EXTENSION OF THE BAN “ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SURRENDER TO THE FORCES OF JEWRY.”

THE UNION INFORMED THE POLICE AUTHORITIES THAT THEY WOULD HOLD A MEETING AWAY FROM EAST END ON OCT. 3 TO COMMEMORATE THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR ORGANIZATION. SIR OSWALD WILL SPEAK AT A DEMONSTRATION THAT NIGHT IN BERMONDSEY, A LONDON SUBURB.

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