biography
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Mosley, Sir Oswald (Ernald)
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pronunciation:
[mohzlee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1980)
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| biography:
| Politician, born in London, UK. He was successively a Conservative, Independent, and Labour MP, and a member of the 1929 Labour government. He resigned from Labour and founded the New Party (1931). Following a visit to Italy, he joined the British Union of Fascists, of which he became leader, and which is remembered for its anti-Semitic violence in the East End of London and its support for Hitler. Detained under the Defence Regulations during World War 2, he founded another racialist party, the Union Movement, in 1948. His second wife (in 1936) was a member of the Mitford family, Diana Mitford (1910– ). |
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