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BRITISH FASCISTS NOW ANTI-JEWISH
Party Comes Into Open at Last
(“Mail” Special Representative)
LONDON, Saturday
Mr. William Joyce, an official Mosley speaker, declared early in 1934: “I do not regard Jews as a class but as a privileged misfortune. The flower—or weed—of Israel shall never grow in ground fertilised by British blood.”
The Mail, 1934
The conference fell into silence as the delegates glanced up. The Soviets were clearly offended and mutinous. The Blackshirts remained, claiming their right to sit in the citizens’ gallery.
For a moment it seemed their mere presence might derail the conference, but then the British delegate took the floor once more, determined to continue. The Fascists sat with their legs apart and their hands fisted upon their knees, almost as if they
