By Morris Beckman, Vidal Sassoon, David Cesarani
Oswald Mosley made up our minds he might keep on the place Hitler and Mussolini had left off. On highway corners his fascist audio system may proclaim 'not sufficient Jews have been burned at Belsen'. input the forty three workforce. In a ferocious, bloody and brilliantly covert five-year crusade, they destroyed the Mosleyites. The club of the gang was once nearly totally made of British servicemen, the unique forty three individuals speedy swelling to greater than three hundred and together with a conflict of england ace, a VC winner - and Vidal Sassoon! The teams philosophy of the '3 D's' - speak about, come to a decision and Do it - have been fast manifested on streets of London, with actually hundreds of thousands of fascist conferences and rallies despatched packing. quick gaining a name, the gang was once organised in 'wedges' of a dozen or so. those wedges might attend a BUF rally and at a given sign might hurricane the speaker's platform, attacking BUF stewards and speaker. The Group's army historical past ensured tight self-discipline and brutally potent actions....
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With uniforms banned,2 they took pains to dress uniformly to give a paramilitary appearance. When the 43 Group discussed the impending launch, some were mindful of the rough BUF rallies before the war, and felt that tackling it might be to bite off more than they could chew. ‘It’s too premature’, demurred one. ’, responded Gerry Flamberg who, in a short space of time had developed a voracious appetite for tackling fascists, ‘Nonsense – they’re bloody fascists! It’s our job to take them indoors, outdoors, upstairs and downstairs and anywhere else we can find the bastards.
The fascists, aping Goebbels, never shrank from thinking big; their slogans were always strident, hammered home often and loudly, their Union Jacks were large. They liked to have their marches led by bands playing stirring military music. With uniforms banned,2 they took pains to dress uniformly to give a paramilitary appearance. When the 43 Group discussed the impending launch, some were mindful of the rough BUF rallies before the war, and felt that tackling it might be to bite off more than they could chew.
Nothing was done; free speech was hallowed. ’, it would be terribly provocative and inexcusably vile, but he had the right to say it. If a Jew in hearing protested he could be arrested for causing a breach of the peace. Such was the law which the Labour government upheld and which the Home Secretary, Chuter Ede, never changed. Frustrated ex-servicemen then turned to their communal leaders, the Jewish Board of Deputies, an elected body loosely equivalent to a Jewish parliament. One of their main committees concerns itself with Jewish Defence.
