The newly-formed National Socialist League, an offshoot of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, announced today it was “definitely anti-Jewish.”
William Joyce, formerly one of Mosley’s chief aides, who founded the new organization with John Beckett, said in an interview with the London Jewish Chronicle:
“Our attitude towards the Jew is definitely anti-Jewish. We regard Communism as a medium whereby the Jewish financier seduces the proletariat from national ideals and prepares them for an international state of which the Communist demagogues will be leaders, but the Jewish financiers the veritable rulers.”
The Jewish weekly commented that, difficult though it was to believe, “this claptrap was Joyce’s actual statement.”
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