We are indebted to the Surrey Advertiser, of Guilford, England, for a fascinating report of a rally there of the Imperial Fascist League, the anti-Semitic shirt group headed by Arnold Leese which spends its time equally in attacking the Mosley Fascists for their alleged subservience to the Jews and in attacking the Jews.
In the course of a long, and at times, it must be confessed, rambling discourse, Fuhrer Leese accused the good people of Guilford of being a “comfortable crowd, very slow to wake up.”
One of his associates, “Mr. E. Lock, of headquarters,” complained that “the organization has the leaders. What we want now is members.
Mr. Leese pointed out that the League of Nations is one of the Jewish weapons by which the Jews hope to gain control of the world. Jewish finance, he informed his auditors, is driving a wedge between capital and labor in Britain.
“There was no cure except the complete exclusion of Jews from England,” The Advertiser reports as the gist of his conclusions.
No discussion was allowed at the meeting, but members of the audience were permitted to ask questions and receive answers. The questions, and particularly the answers, were revealing.
Mr. Leese commented that he “was perfectly prepared to open and shut the lethal chamber door all day if we could get rid of the Jews that way,” but admitted he did not think the people of England would “stand for it.” The alternative he suggested, in reply to one question, was to send all the Jews to Madagascar.
Here are some of the questions and answers as carefully reported by the newspaper.
Question: Is not your league anti-Christian, seeing that we are taught as Englishmen that all men are brothers?
Answer: Christianity, if it says that all men are brothers, is perverted.
Question: If democracy has so failed in this country, why is it that in Fascist Italy the conditions of the working people are much lower, not only as far as wages are concerned, but their economic standard? (hear, hear).
Answer: From olden times the Italian standard of life has been a lower standard than the Nordic. Mussolini’s stock does not stand very high among the members of the Imperial Fascist League at the moment, but, as far as we know, he has never carried out his own theories to the “last gasp.” He does not recognize the Jewish domination of finance.
Question: Why not “India for the Indians” and “Africa for the Africans?” (hear, hear).
Answer: When we speak of Britain for the Britons, Germany for the Germans, and Italy for the Italians, we mean what we say. We don’t believe in the equality of races. The African is “not in the same street” as the Italian, German, or Briton from a political standpoint.
Question: Have you never thought of equality of rights?
Answer: We believe there should be equality of rights. That is wrapped up in the third catchword “justice,” but “equality” is rubbish.
The questioner: I agree with that; any fool does (laughter).
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