1951 Alexander Raven Thomson British Union Of Fascists Final Speeches
Code: 13475
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For sale is a A very rare & most likely one if a kind speech from Alexander Raven Thomson dated 8th November 1951 titled "briefing the speaker", this speech was made 7pm at the BUF national headquarters. Alexander Raven Thomson (3 December 1899-30 October 1955), usually referred to as Raven, was a Scottish politician and philosopher. He joined the British Union of Fascists in 1933 and remained a follower of Oswald Mosley for the rest of his life. Thomson was considered to be the party's chief ideologue and has been described as the "Alfred Rosenberg of British fascism."
The provenance for this speech made by A Raven Thomson is the reverse side of this speech. The revert is from Oswald Mosley's private home & private office as it's embossed blue header stating "Mosley publications (PROPRIETOR: SIR OSWALD E. MOSLEY, BART.)CROWOOD HOUSE, RAMSBURY, WILTS" proves this. Oswald mosley stayed/ lived at this address from 1945 to 1951 before his move to Ireland in at the end of 1951. This speech/ letter would have crossed hands from Mosley and Thomson themselves before being read to a group of British Union of fascists and Union movement supporters. After the war Mosley was contacted by his former supporters and persuaded to return to participation in politics. He formed the Union Movement, which called for a single nation-state to cover the continent of Europe (known as Europe a Nation) and later attempted to launch a National Party of Europe to this end. The Union Movement's meetings were often physically disrupted, as Mosley's meetings had been before the war, and largely by the same opponents. This led to Mosley's decision, in 1951, to leave Britain and live in Ireland. He later moved to Paris. Of his decision to leave, he said, "You don't clear up a dungheap from underneath it." This speech mainly calls and asks the movements supporters to rally for a world trading system, the speech also calls out the wrongs of the Tory government throughout the war and its penalising and crushing policies on how Germany is being treated post ww2 and that currently its the British government who are at fault or "the weakest link" in getting a United Europe into play. This is an exceedingly rare speech and document due to it being one of Oswald Mosley's last public appearance in Britain before leaving for Ireland in 1951.
This is a very rare and special piece. This will be sent via Royal Mail special delivery and dispatched within two working days.
