I WAS interested to read Mr Fagles’s account of Sir Oswald Mosley’s visit to Southampton (Daily Echo, January 1) and the hostility shown toward him, although it must be added this was not universal, even in the south of England.
In Worthing, he had strong support and the town was even nicknamed “The Munich of the South”.
A jury there acquitted Mosley and some of his followers on a charge of riotous assembly without retiring to deliberate.
However, I strongly doubt Mosley’s claim that he would have remained loyal the country if the Germans had invaded. Why would he fight a regime he agreed with on every major issue?
It was not until the publication of his memoirs in 1968 that he finally acknowledged the Germans had committed atrocities, and he had always called Hitler his leader.
RICHARD KIDD, Andover
- You can read about the time Oswald Mosley visited Southampton in our Hampshire Heritage article from last month.
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