Robert Bernays Quotes
It was horribly impressive – the banners, the processional, the atmosphere of virility and enthusiasm and the cheers that greeted Mosley’s ridicule of the democratic system. The audience consisted of young toughs from the shops and the banks and that type of ageing ex-serviceman who has pathetically retained his military rank from the war.
Oswald Mosley was the British Nazi leader who was jailed during much of WWII. There was an obvious and intended similarity to the German Nazi “Brownshirts.” However, the British Nazis wore black shirts. See {591594}.
Robert Bernays, 1902-1945, English Diarist, Description of a British Nazi Party Rally, Diary, April 21, 1934
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In 1934 Sir Osward, an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, advocated that Hitler be made Dictator of England. Mosby was referred to as “Public Enemy Number One” and at this speech, protestors climbed up to the rafters and shouted protests. Some of his supporters, thugs dressed in black shirts, climbed up to confront and battle the protestors. Mosley wanted no violence to mar his appearance but had trouble controlling his Blackshirts. His supporters paid him little heed. Over 100 people were injured and dozens arrested. Often called Blackshirts
This was the origin of the ultra right wing British Fascistic.
See Huey Long for a similar point of view.
Ironically, the fascist organizations that did form in America did just that. The American Firsters claimed patriotism motivated them to support Hitler and Father Coughlin and his fascist movement was his own version of Christianity—one which the Roman Catholic Church was so opposed to that they prohibited him from appearing on the radio with his virulent preaching. He was one of several who “hijacked” American Christianity not unlike the way radical Muslims would later in the century hijack Islam.
70 years after Fascism was defeated in Italy, there were still a number of right wing politicians who still espoused some of the Fascist principles. “Abjure” means to repudiate.
In 1918 the Treaty of Versailles—peace treaty ending WWI—was signed. Many Germans felt that their defeat in WWI forced them to sign the treaty which weakened Germany and assured that they would be a 2nd rate power thereafter. After that Germans blamed every negative aspect of their government, economy and society on the treaty that was “forced” on them. Nazism was a consequence of these feelings, and the Nazis adopted policies and practices to get around their anti-military obligations and have a strong government so that the allies could not enforce the treaty obligations on Germany.
Egypt, after is Arab Spring ousting of it like time military dictator, suffered through and Islamic government regeime, but after that ended up electing a military strongman again who had little inclination towards democracy and was decidedly fascistic. In November 2013, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights presented Omran with an award to honor her work and commitment to human rights in Egypt.
Robert Hamilton Bernays was a Liberal Party and later Liberal National politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1931 to 1945.
