10 AUGUST 1962, Page 9

Underdog?

Those impatient spirits who have broken up Sir Oswald Mosley's meetings should beware. The object of their wrath has already had his right to be heard defended by Victor Gollancz and Lord Longford in the spirit, if not exactly the manner, of Voltaire. The next thing they know will be that he is appearing in another collection of Underdogs by Philip Toynbee and reaching his apotheosis among the insulted and injured who now seem to throng the plays of John Osborne. It is a dangerous thing rousing the liberal conscience!

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