The ideology of the British Right, 1918-1939
Examines the attraction of dissident Conservatives to the fascist movement and the role of antisemitism in Conservative and fascist ideology. Mentions extreme right-wing groups which linked antisemitism with anti-Bolshevism and attempted to spread the Jewish conspiracy theory. The rise of Nazism led to a split in the Right between those who supported Germany and anti-Bolshevik antisemitism, and those who were against appeasement. Apart from reactionaries, other potential fascists were Catholics, Social Creditors, and literary persons in search of order, such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. However, concludes that many of those most inclined to support the British Union of Fascists recoiled from its modernizing, secularist ideology and its association with Germany. Antisemitism was not a major issue. Pp. 142-165 contain a directory of persons and organizations, including antisemitic organizations. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, English, ©1986
Croom Helm, London, ©1986