Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, declared in an address at Leeds last night that Britons had been commanded to fight Germany “by the Jewish masters of finance, to maintain a system of international usury which set up sweated labor industries in Eastern Europe to the ruin of British industries.”
At one point he demanded that police eject a questioner, declaring: “I call upon the police of Leeds to do their duty and I give that man in charge under the Public Order Act. We shall now see whether the police of Leeds do their duty or are controlled by the Jewish council.”
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