My husband was right
From Lady Mosley Sir: With reference to my 'disastrous poli- tics' (Books, 9 October), people now have forgotten the misery of Britain in the early Thirties: mass unemployment, distressed areas, hunger marches, appalling slums and hopeless poverty. Mosley, as a junior minister in Ramsay MacDonald's government, was given the task of abolishing these evils. His memo- randum was rejected by Labour and Tories alike. Had it been implemented, as is now recognised, a great deal of suffering would have been avoided.
R.H.S. Crossman, a minister in Harold Wilson's government in the Sixties, wrote that Mosley's ideas had been a whole gen- eration ahead of Labour thinking, and that he was rejected by Whitehall and Westmin- ster simply because he was right.
Mosley tried a new way to get his ideas translated into action. He failed.
I looked upon his ideas as sublime com- mon sense, and always supported him. Diana Mosley
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