MOSLEY
SIR,—Bernard Levin is more than capable of looking after himself, but Colin Wilson has accused him of twisting the facts, and I think we should get the record straight. The article in Twentieth Century was not 1Mgely a criticism of Mosley'; only half of it was even about Mosley and was critical of him in a curiously half- hearted way. 1 cannot quote it all because of lack of space and the law of copyright, but the following remarks appear : 'When I heard that Mosley intended to stand for Parliament, it seemed to me an excellent idea . . . he had struck me as a charming man. . . . I also found myself in agreement with him on the ultimate cause of the Notting Hill problem: the British Government's transfer of the sugar conces- sion from the West Indies to Cuba. . . . He had stated categorically that he was not and never had been anti-Negro or anti-Jewish. . . In fact, his policy was pro-Negro. . . . I am willing enough to believe that he said these things in good faith. . . . He has struck me as likeable, sincere and, above all, as intelligent. (He is far and away the most intelligent politician I have ever met.) . . . He backed the wrong horse before the war. . .
This may be quoting out of context, but even in context I think the feeling induced is one not so much of high blood pressure as of faint nausea. Mr. Wilson seems to have been taken in pretty completely; and his `criticism' was in fact chiefly of Mosley's method, not of his policy. As for the latter, I am younger than Mr. Wilson but surely it is not necessary to see Mosley and his boys in action (as I did on the same afternoon that Mr. Wilson was in Notting Hill) to know quite enough about the British Union of Fascists—sorry, British Union Movement—to realise what Mosley stands for. 'Certain regrettable incidents in the East End,' indeed! Who is trying to fool whom 7—Yours faithfully, NICOLAS WALTER 83 Belsize Park Gardens, NW 3
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