ESMOND HARMSWORTH, 2ND VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE

The Daily Mail was a very conservative newspaper which supported English Fascist Oswald Mosley and wrote articles favorable to Mussolini and Hitler before the war. There was a small but powerful part of English Aristocracy who were pro German and pro Fascist including the King, Edward, Duke of Windsor {584507} who was persuaded to abdicate and relegated to the Bahamas where his views were not so public. The Daily Mail catered to that part of the English Aristocracy.

The Daily Mail was a very conservative newspaper which supported English Fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts and wrote articles favorable to Mussolini and Hitler before the war. There was a small but powerful part of English Aristocracy who were pro German and pro Fascist including the King, Edward, Duke of Windsor {584507} who was persuaded to abdicate and relegated to the Bahamas where his views were not so public. The Daily Mail catered to that part of the English Aristocracy. See also {623171}

This telegram was one of the more bizarre episodes leading up to WWII. The “solution” that Rothermore was praising was the German Army seizing and occupying a large part of Czechoslovakia – the Sudetenland -- in violation of the WWI Peace Treaty that Germany had signed. Further, Rothermere knew perfectly well that England and France were bound by treaty to come to the military aid of Czechoslovakia and war between Britain and Germany could break out at any moment. Yet he sent the telegram encouraging Hitler in his aggression. The Daily Mail, Rothermore’s very conservative newspaper supported English Fascist Oswald Mosley and wrote articles favorable to Mussolini and Hitler. There was a small but powerful part of English Aristocracy who were pro German and pro Fascist including the King, Edward, Duke of Windsor {584507} who was persuaded to abdicate and relegated to the Bahamas where his views were not so public. The Daily Mail catered to that part of the English Aristocracy.

The Daily Mail was a very conservative newspaper which supported English Fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts and wrote articles favorable to Mussolini and Hitler before the war. There was a small but powerful part of English Aristocracy who were pro German and pro Fascist including the King, Edward, Duke of Windsor {584507} who was persuaded to abdicate and relegated to the Bahamas where his views were not so public. The Daily Mail catered to that part of the English Aristocracy. See also {623171}

This telegram was one of the more bizarre episodes leading up to WWII. The “solution” that Rothermore was praising was the German Army seizing and occupying a large part of Czechoslovakia – the Sudetenland -- in violation of the WWI Peace Treaty that Germany had signed. Further, Rothermere knew perfectly well that England and France were bound by treaty to come to the military aid of Czechoslovakia and war between Britain and Germany could break out at any moment. Yet he sent the telegram encouraging Hitler in his aggression. The Daily Mail, Rothermore’s very conservative newspaper supported English Fascist Oswald Mosley and wrote articles favorable to Mussolini and Hitler. There was a small but powerful part of English Aristocracy who were pro German and pro Fascist including the King, Edward, Duke of Windsor {584507} who was persuaded to abdicate and relegated to the Bahamas where his views were not so public. The Daily Mail catered to that part of the English Aristocracy.

The Daily Mail was a very conservative newspaper which supported English Fascist Oswald Mosley and wrote articles favorable to Mussolini and Hitler before the war. There was a small but powerful part of English Aristocracy who were pro German and pro Fascist including the King, Edward, Duke of Windsor {584507} who was persuaded to abdicate and relegated to the Bahamas where his views were not so public. The Daily Mail catered to that part of the English Aristocracy.