Volume 23, Number 14 · September 16, 1976
The Second Oswald
By David Pryce-Jones
Oswald Mosley
by Robert Skidelsky
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 578 pp., $15.00
'It is time that the case for Mosley was made by the historian,' writes Mr. Skidelsky. He notes with asperity that none of the other recent writers on British fascism has 'that indispensable quality of sympathy with the movement.' That will not be charged against him. This book is another step in a process, which has been gradually getting under way, of claiming that fascism was not so bad as it looks; that communists and their sympathizers have always been manipulating condemnations of fascism to their benefit; and finally that fascist leaders, give or take a few warts, have something 'tragic' or 'heroic' about them.
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