Volume 19, Number 3 · August 31, 1972
Sir Oswald, Leave the House!
By Noel Annan
My Life
by Oswald Mosley
Arlington House, 521 pp., $12.95
The Devil, as we all know, is a gentleman. Fatally attractive, he is clever and intelligent, possesses a boisterous, if rather coarse, sense of humor, and is such good company that you scarcely catch a glimpse of the horns beneath his curly locks. He and his minions take many shapes—Milton identified five of them taking part in the Infernal Debate in Paradise Lost—and each spreads his own special virus of evil with which he tries to infect human souls.
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