Ted “Kid” Lewis, the famous boxes and former welterweight champion of the world, one of the heroes of Whitechapel, where he was born and lived and where he emerged into fame, is to stand for Whitechapel at the next election as a candidate of the Mosley Party, it is announced. He has definitely decided to stand as candidate for Whitechapel, it was stated at the Mosley Party headquarters, and he calls at the headquarters every day.
Mr. Lewis confirmed the report to-day to the J.T.A. To-morrow, he is addressing a political luncheon at the Cafe Royal, at which Sir Oswald Mosley will be present, and he will outline his policy.
In view of rumours that have been in circulation about the Mosley Party intending to model itself on the Hitlerist movement in Germany, its adoption of a Jew as its candidate, and its decision to contest a constituency largely Jewish in character, is of interest.
Whitechapel was very much in the limelight last November, at the time of the by-election caused by the death of the former Minister of Transport, Mr. Gosling, who had been its representative in Parliament, when Mr. B. Janner, a prominent English Zionist, stood as Liberal candidate, basing himself mainly on the opposition to the Passfield White Paper on Palestine which had recently been published.
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