MY LIFE by Sir Oswald Mosley: some reviews
"No rising star in the political firmament ever shone more brightly than Sir Oswald Mosley. Since by general assent he could have become the leader of either the Labour or the Conservative Party. What Mosley so valiantly stood for could have saved this country from the Hungry Thirties and the Second World War".
Michael Foot, Labour MP
"He had an impeccable record in the First World War. It was silly to intern Mosley during the Second World War. He was not in the least unpatriotic, any more than he was anti-Semitic or in favour of revolution by force. He had, I think, greater natural political talent than any survivor of his generation from the First World War" - Sir Colin Coote
"He might have been able to lead either the Conservative or the Labour Party and in either case ... I should have joined him. I discerned in him ... this kind of quality of leadership that I discerned in only two other men during all my period of political life. One is Lloyd George and the other is Churchill". - Lord Boothby
"The stuff of greatness - more than a spark of genius". - John Blake
"The greatest comet of British politics in the twentieth century ... an orator of the highest rank. He produced, almost unaided, a programme of economic reconstruction which surpassed anything offered by Lloyd George or, in the United States, by F. D. Roosevelt ... He has continued fertile in ideas. These ideas came to him by inspiration. Interned quite absurdly under Regulation 18B during the Second World War. He was never anti-Semitic - only opposed to a Second World War for the sake of Jews elsewhere. He was never unpatriotic - only indifferent to German conquests in eastern Europe ... A superb political thinker, the best of our age". - A.J.P. Taylor