Although the Fascist Blackshirt organization he heads does not possess machine guns or other modern implements of warfare, the machine guns “would be easy to get if the occasion arose,” Sir Oswald Mosley, “fuehrer” of the British Fascists, testified today in a case in the King’s Bench Division.
Sir Oswald was testifying in the libel action he brought against the publishers of the Evening Star, which last February reported that “Sir Oswald warned James Maxton that he and his Fascists were ready to take over the government with the aid of machine guns when the proper moment arrived.”
The witness expressed the greatest admiration for Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini.
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