Letters to the Editor
[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our !` News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudonym.—Ed. THE SPECTATOR.] YOUTH AND THE POLITICIANS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] was glad, as must be all those who have the Blackshirt movement at heart, to see that The Spectator last week had put its finger on two vital points in Sir Oswald Mosley's campaign, namely (a) that there must be more young men in Government, and (b) that the slums must go.
In a refreshingly forcible passage, Sir, you characterize the Blackshirt leader's speeches as "crude and windy stuff." Even so, you admit that we cannot neglect the growth of Fascism. Now, in the view of those who are joining the move- ment, Sir Oswald Mosley's policy seems quite clean-cut and straightforward, not only for slums, but also for agriculture, unemployment, &c.
Here is a new party which is strongly idealistic, typically national, and as different from Italian Fascism as it is from German National Socialism ; yet a movement springing from the same dissatisfactions and urges of youth as those which have carried Hitler and Mussolini to power. We expect, and generally get from The Spectator, a fair and reasoned examina- tion of the political tendencies of the age ; then surely, Sir, instead of dismissing Mosley's ideals as "crude and windy," you should tell us in one or more articles with what subtle and non-ventose arguments you would meet the .Blackshirt case for action .—I am, Sir, &c.,
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