What Did You Do During the War? The last throes of the British pro-Nazi Right, 1940–45

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Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Nomenclature Introduction Bibliography Part I Puncturing myths about the ‘phoney war’ period 1 To fight or not to fight: The myth of Mosley’s patriotism An individual case: Derek Stuckey Mosley in the first year of the war. May 1940: another misdated and misinterpreted quotation Further prevarication, and another questionable document Bibliography Books Documents Newspapers and journals 2 The reception of Bryant’s Unfinished Victory: The myth of public unanimity against Nazi Germany in early 1940 Bryant and Macmillan Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals Part II Peace and war, high-mindedness and low connections: the Duke of Bedford and the peace movement 3 Evangelical anticapitalism: The strange case of the Duke of Bedford Early life Pre-war political involvement The ‘phoney war’ After May 1940 Bibliography Books Documents Newspapers and journals 4 ‘How can the Germans honestly be blamed?’: The infiltration of the peace movement The build-up to war The fascist dimension The ‘phoney war’ May 1940 onwards Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals Part III Defence Regulation 18b and its after-effects 5 The watershed: The arrests of May–June 1940 and their aftermath Aubrey Lees Ben Greene The effect of imprisonment upon the detainees Bibliography Books, articles and interviews Documents Newspapers 6 The re-emergence of extreme right-wing movements in Britain, 1940–5 The beginnings of organised political activity, and the formation of the BNP, followed by the ENA The British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women The British People’s Party The Constitutional Research Association Conclusion Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals Part IV Renegades 7 ‘Long before 1939 I had become an admirer of the Nazi system’: Five British broadcasters for Nazi Germany Miss Margaret Bothamley Mrs (Frances) Dorothy Eckersley and James Clark Henry William Wicks and Margaret Wicks The sentences Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals Part V Pro-Nazism, patriotism, hatred, fear, remorse: the extraordinary variety of motives among former ... 8 ‘Have you found many Lavals among your Galloway friends?’: Wartime and post-war disputes between three former ... Dramatis personae The build-up to war The ‘phoney war’ (September 1939 to May 1940) The effect of the DR 18B imprisonments in May–June 1940 More attacks and complications in 1941 John McKie’s deselection in 1945 Conclusion Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals 9 ‘I wrote a very full and strong letter to the King’: Two would-be negotiators Bibliography Books Documents Newspapers 10 ‘The internment of a person of her social standing might give the public a wrong impression’: The charmed lives ... Lady Pearson and Viscountess Downe Further prominent figures Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals 11 ‘His impetuous nature, obstinacy and flawed judgement’: A bull in a china shop Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals 12 ‘You know the Jewish racket as well as I do’: The vagaries of the ‘back-to-the-land’ school Lord Lymington and Norman Hay Rolf Gardiner Henry Williamson Francis Yeats-Brown Captain George Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers John Coast Bibliography Books and articles Documents Newspapers and journals Part VI Aftermath 13 ‘Change and decay in all around I see’: Further post-war decline The extremist movements The hard-liners: Gordon-Canning, Ramsay, Domvile, Leese The ‘back-to-the-landers’ The African Connection Lord Brocket and the Knoydart Land Seizures Ben Greene and Cambridge University Press Lord Sempill’s further financial ventures Life goes on Bibliography Books, articles and interviews Documents Newspapers and journals Conclusion Appendix Rogues’ gallery Allen, ‘Commandant’ Mary (1878–1964) Amery, John (1912–1945) Beckett, John (1894–1964) Booth, Dr Meyrick, B.Sc. (Leeds), D.Phil (Jena) (b. 1883) Bowman, Frederick (1893–1969) Brooks, (William) Collin (1893–1959) Burgess, Victor Carroll, Cola Ernest (1896–1957) Chesterton, Arthur Keith (1899–1973) Collier, Captain Vincent Creagh Scott, Lt- Colonel John (d.1957) Domvile, Admiral Sir Barry (1878–1971) Douglas, Major C.H. (1879–1952) Findlay, Richard Francis- Hawkins, Neil (1903–1950) Fuller, Major-General J.F.C. (1878–1966) Glasgow, 8th Earl of (Patrick James Boyle) (1874–1963) Gordon-Canning, Captain Robert (1888–1967) Hamilton, Gerald (1890–1970) Hamm, Jeffrey (1915–92) Houston, Richard A. (‘Jock’) (b. 1903) Jenks, Jorian (1899–1963) Joyce, William (1906–46) Kitson, Arthur (1859–1937) Laurie, Arthur Pillans (1861–1949) Leese, Arnold (1878–1956) Lintorn-Orman, Rotha (1895–1935) Ludovici, Captain Anthony (1882–1971) McGovern, John (1887–1968) McNab, Angus (1906–77) Mar, 12th Earl of (Walter John Francis Erskine) (1865–1955) Mills, H.T. (‘Bertie’) (b. 1898) Oddie, Air Commodore Gerard S. (1896–1985) Philby, H. St John (1885–1960) Ramsay, Captain Archibald Maule (‘Jock’) (1894–1955) Riddell, Enid (1904–80) Rogers, Captain Arthur Scanlon, John Soddy, Professor Frederick (1877–1956) Verdon Roe, Sir Alliott (1877–1958) Williamson, Hugh Ross (1901–78) Wolkoff, Anna (1902–73) Bibliography Unpublished sources The National Archives, Kew (TNA) Caird Archive and Library, National Maritime Museum (NMM) Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London (LHCMA) Selwyn College, Cambridge Library (SCC) Trinity College, Cambridge Library (TCC) Hampshire Record Office (HRO) Bodleian Library (Bod.) In the possession of Mr Edward Greene Newspapers and periodicals National dailies, weeklies and Sundays Specialist journals (including religious and political) Scottish, Welsh and Irish papers English local newspapers Foreign newspapers Books and articles (up to 1945) Books and articles (post-1945) Index