Thomas Hope Floyd
Thomas Hope Floyd (1898-1973) was an author, a book collector and a frequent letter writer. He served with distinction in the First World War and is best remembered for his memoir 'At Ypres With Best-Dunkley'. He subscribed to Candour and corresponded with AK Chesterton.
4th July 1969
Dear Mr Chesterton,
I have just received my copy of the June issue of Candour and write at once to let you know that I agree with every word on your admirable article about the Rhodesian vote for a Republic.
I enclose copy of some of my last efforts to save Rhodesia for the Queen and the Queen for Rhodesia, following my speech in Committee Room 14 in the House of Commons in which I made an appeal to Wilson and Heath, at the last moment, to save the Monarchy by a pledge of recognition of complete Rhodesian Independence, without any strings, under the Queen of Rhodesia.
Selwyn Lloyd promised that he would see that Heath knew of my speech and letter to the Telegraph (which was never published). Heath, of course, said and did nothing. He therefore shares responsibility for the calamity with Wilson.
Let us now do all we can to drive this Unholy Trinity - Wilson, Heath and Archbishop Ramsey - out of public life altogether. May the curse of Cromwell rest upon them.
Yours very sincerely, Thomas Hope Floyd.
AK Chesterton replied on July 9th.
Dear Mr Floyd,
Thank you very much for your letter of July 4th with its interesting enclosures.
It gives me much pleasure to know that we are agreed upon the Rhodesian issue. As was to have been foreseen, the article in Candour has not gone at all well with its 'Good Old Smithy' readers, but if a periodical is to be true to itself and not go all out in search of popularity, this is the kind of situation it is quite often called upon to meet. Alas, before any very long time has elapsed, most of our critics will be forced to the conclusion that we were quite right.
I agree upon the need to get rid of the Unholy Alliance you mention but I fear they would prove to be dragons teeth.
With kind regards, Yours very sincerely AK Chesterton.
Thomas Hope-Floyd's letter to the Yorkshire Post was published on 9th September 1968.
Vanished Empire
Sir - The recent publication of a book entitled "The Fall of The British Empire" by Colin Cross (reviewed in the Yorkshire Post on September 9th), raises the whole question of the root causes of the catastrophe.
It has often been said that the Russian menace of today (reawakened by the latest actions of that power in Czechoslovakia) all goes back to Yalta. Of course it does. It was at Yalta in January 1945, shortly before his death, that Roosevelt went behind Churchill's back and sold the pass in Europe to Stalin.
It was Roosevelt also who told his son Elliot Roosevelt (as he saw it), before the initial Atlantic Meeting following the belated American entry into the Second World War, that, knowing that Churchill now needed American assistance to complete the defeat of Hitler, he intended to blackmail him into the first steps toward that disintegration of the British Empire over which Churchill had so often said that he would not like to be destined to preside.
But the lesson does not end with this alone. It goes still further back. If Baldwin and Chamberlain had listened to Churchill and the French Government in 1936 and stopped Hitler (as Hitler himself feared might happen, and as his generals believed would happen) when he went into the Rhineland, there would have been no great Second World War.
For acting in concert with France, it would at that time have been a walk-over in spite of our weakness in armaments: and Churchill would never come to need the help of either the United States or Russia; and thus the British Empire, the greatest power for good in the history of the world, and for which there is no need for any apology or the "righteous" indignation so often expressed by the ethically insane Leftist historians and politicians and journalists who always rejoice to see the Union Jack lowered everywhere, would still be going strong in the year 1968.
The whole civilised world in general, and England in particular, would have been in a much happier and prosperous and progressive and peaceful condition.
Yours etc, Thomas Hope Floyd.
No Place For Terrorism
The long prison sentences handed down to political campaigners in the USA and the UK should act as a warning to others. The possession of unlicensed guns and explosives is definitely illegal, but it's not necessary to make and use bombs to qualify as a terrorist. The possession of banned literature is enough to get you put away.
Some of the cases brought before the courts have been grossly unfair. Having a copy of 'The Anarchist Cookbook' is considered an act of terrorism, despite the fact that it's been around for years and is freely available. Many of the young men accused of being terrorists were simply curious, but it must be admitted that some of them were dangerous.
James Allchurch (Sven Longshanks) is a disabled blogger who should not have been convicted. He never advocated violence, and he only used the Internet for political debate. Nevertheless he was sentenced to two and a half years for inciting racial hatred.
This is in contrast to 1986 when a leading BNP activist was sentenced to just three years in prison for possessing explosives and detonators. Today he would probably have got a life sentence.
Psychopaths like Tim McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber, David Copeland the London Nail Bomber, and Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, deserved the death penalty. McVeigh was duly executed, Copeland is serving six life sentences, and Breivik enjoys the comfort of a progressive Norwegian prison where he spends his time suing the State for infringing his human rights.
There have been many other mass-murderers in the UK, France, New Zealand, and elsewhere who were prepared to kill people to make their point.
Apart from being wicked and illegal, these actions are self-defeating. The general public will not be persuaded by acts of terrorism. The IRA lost the support of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland and the backing of their American donors when one of their factions planted a devastating bomb at the war memorial in Omagh.
The State has a duty to protect the public and individuals have a duty to obey the law. No good can come from criminal behaviour. Political activists should read, write, speak, and organise to bring about change: there is no place for terrorism.
Staring into the Abyss
Nietzsche warned us that if we stare into the Abyss, the Abyss will stare back at us. I personally know people who think they can dip into the Daily Mail, or watch GB TV without being infected. They are wrong. The words and thoughts of creatures like Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg are as toxic as cyanide, and as addictive as heroine.
They seduce their victims with harmless pleasantries like "take back control", which we would all like to do, but before you know it they will sell off the NHS, abolish the trade unions, scrap benefits and old-age pensions, confiscate the tents of the homeless and turn us all into gig workers without rights.
The extra-parliamentary movements that fought against unrestricted immigration in the sixties and seventies were falsely labelled extremists. But Mosley and the National Front both promoted social policies that protected workers' rights, health care and education. Far from being extremists they were moderates, especially when compared to the swivel-eyed lunatics of the parliamentary far-right.
I long ago gave up trying to figure out how people vote. How can a working class man without a penny to his name support a Tory Party that wants to keep things just the way they are? But they do.
And how can people who want stricter immigration controls vote for any of the Old Gang parties that are committed to open-borders, despite their protestations to the contrary? They have all been in power, alone or in coalition, since the British Nationality Act of 1948, but none of them have done anything meaningful to control the influx.
The worst example of political duplicity was when Margaret Thatcher said she understood people's fears of being 'swamped' by immigration. She said it just before the 1979 general election, just in time to scupper the National Front who were standing against her. Then, as soon as she was in power she opened the floodgates.
Margaret Thatcher presided over the death of British industry and the abolition of banking regulations that enabled the casino capitalists to asset-strip the nation. She is, of course, the darling of the Tory far-right
To fight this cancerous consensus we need to be clear-minded and determined. We will not succeed by ingesting enemy propaganda. Old Nietzsche was right - if you stare into the Abyss, the Abyss will stare back at you.
Liz Truss and Mosley
The brief premiership of Liz Truss and the budget introduced by her hapless Chancellor Kwase Kwarteng severely damaged the UK economy. Liz wanted to stimulate our flagging economy with tax cuts but the Market reacted badly and the Tory hierarchy was forced to replace her.
Oswald Mosley proposed similar measures in his memorandum to the Labour Party in 1930. Few people paid income tax in those days but Mosley wanted to increase wages and benefits to stimulate growth and counter unemployment.
Both politicians suggested alternatives to tight monetary policy, the big difference between them was that Mosley's memorandum was issued when the British Empire was a protected market, but Liz's bold experiment was made when we had just walked away from the world's biggest market. It's true that we were still recovering from the stock market crash of 1929 when Mosley issued his memorandum, but Britain was still a major industrial power. Today, we have allowed our industry to decline and our national debt is unsustainable. At present we spend more on interest repayments than we do on defence.
The government's priority must be to reduce our national debt and increase productivity. When we have restored the economy to stability we can relieve the tax burden on the working population, but until such time we shall have to live within our means and stop wasting money on pointless overseas military adventures, and ridiculously expensive infrastructure projects such as high speed railways and nuclear power stations.
We can also do without a fleet of submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles that will never be used, and a pair of gigantic aircraft carriers that spend most of their time in dry dock. Our defence force should be for the protection of the British Isles not for intervention in the Black Sea or the Pacific.
A reply to Eddy Morrison's 'White Voice' No 54 June 2020
Dear Editor
Thank you for sending me your interesting magazine.
Some points I would like to make on the “Mosley or Leese”
debate.
1 After the Red/Jewish violence at the Blackshirt
Olympia rally in June 1934, Oswald Mosley banned Jews from BUF membership.
2 Arnold Leese accepted Mosley’s invitation to
speak at a New Party meeting in 1932 on the theme “The Blindness of British
Police under the Jewish Money Power.”
3 In 1936 Mosley expanded the title of his
movement to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists (BUF) under
the influence and popularity of Hitler’s NSDAP in Germany.
4 Leese was far more extreme and anti Jewish than
even the Nazis themselves (who accepted half Jews such as SS founding member
No2 Emil Maurice, Hitler’s friend, and comrade from Landsberg Prison from the
early days of the NSDAP). Leese wrote in the IFL manifesto “Mightier yet: The
Policy of the Imperial Fascist League” (1935) that Jews who left Madagascar
after being deported there by an IFL government would have to face the “death
penalty.” Mosley proposed in his book “Tomorrow We Live” (1938) and Mick Clarke
wrote in the BUFNS pamphlet “Britain and Jewry” (1939), that Jews who abuse our
hospitality would be resettled in a new homeland “alternative to Palestine
which is already the home of the Arabs.”
5 Mosley’s Union Movement was the first party to
propose the financially-assisted repatriation of non-European immigrants to
good jobs and homes in the West Indies, Africa and Asia in 1952.
6 After the Brothers’ War of 1939-1945,
ex-Blackshirt and ex-serviceman, AK Chesterton (who fought against Germany and
broke with Mosley in opposition to the BUFNS Peace campaign) wrote a book “The
Tragedy of anti-Semitism” (1948) with the Jew Joseph Leftwitch. AKC became the
first leader of the National Front in 1967 and took an
anti-United Europe line against Mosley’s “Europe a Nation” vision splendid. I
note with interest that your National Action Party (NAP) of the eighties used
Mosley’s Flash and Circle emblem and had a policy of “Europe a Family” which
was far better in my opinion than the negative narrow “nationalism” of the NF
and BNP. I was further surprised after reading your autobiography “Memoirs of a
Street Soldier” how strong and active the NAP was at the time with meetings
attended by 100 or more Nationalists and NAP stewards wearing uniform and many
NAP street demonstrations in London and elsewhere.
Yours sincerely
Roger Bartlett
NR: It took me some time to uncover the identity of Roger Bartlett. It turned out to be our old friend Robert Best.
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