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British Ex-fascists from Organization to Combat Mosley’s Anti-semitic Union Movement

August 11, 1948
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Formation of a British anti-?aecist league was announced today by estranged followers of Sir Oswald Moslay, leader of the fascist and anti-Semitic Union Movement.

The leader of the new organization is Michael Mclean, at one tine Birmingham fascist chief. He heads a group composed at present almost entirely of former Mosleyites, most of whom parted company with the British Fascist at McLean’s instigation. The group intends to begin soon a widespread series of public meetings.

The anti-Fascist speakers panel includes six men drawn from business, education and labor. Fifty others, all-former Fascists, form a nucleus for the new organization. The group is currently being financed by dues which were formerly paid to Mosley. The founders hope as soon as possible to establish units in the major British industrial centers. McLean says he has been in touch with U.S. Fascists in Washington, New York and other cities across the Atlantic, whom he hopes now to convert to anti-Fascism and to persuade to set up a United States group equivalent to his own organization.

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