Mosley contra mundum
Sir: As an old professor I should be much more pleased with the beautiful Lady Mosley (Letters, 10 October) if she would only learn from history, instead of thinking that she is equipped to rewrite it — after all that we have experienced from her great friends, Hitler and Goebbels! I am shocked by such obstinate obtuseness. Hitler and Goebbels would have taken no notice of two ignorant young Mitford girls, if they had not been the daughters of an English peer. They had no historical education and no political judgment. But they served Hitler's purpose very well as stooges for his propaganda, helping the Nazi criminals to dominate Europe.
That is no reason for the survivor of those pretty girls to go on and on with her nonsense. Can't I persuade her ladyship to try to learn, after 50 years, instead of thinking to teach, when she knows no history and — like the late Mosley — has no real political understanding either? Can't I persuade her, as an old don, sweetly to be good and shut up?
A. L. Rowse
Trenarren House, St Austell, Cornwall
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