GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action!

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Hair-trigger nerves. A dark toothbrush mustache. Youth. The gift of gab. Ambition. A decent War record. IDEAS: how to shrug the burden of War debts off one's country's shoulder; how to recapture prosperity; how to become GREAT.

Put all this hodge-podge together and it makes:

Either Herr Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born, ex-streetsweeper whose young Fascist party has won 6,000,000 German votes (TIME, Sept. 22).

Or Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Bart., the "Millionaire Socialist" who founded in England fortnight ago "The New Party" (TIME, March 9), promptly caught influenza, lay all last week between sheets while his beauteous wife went out to fight the party's first battles.

Two Kings, Two Queens. Adolf Hitler has no wife and only what money he can collect (German Magnaten have been generous). But Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley, daughter of the late, great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, brings to her husband many of the golden millions left by her Jewish grandfather, Levi Zeigler Leiter of Chicago.*

In 1599 one of Sir Oswald's ancestors was Lord Mayor of London. In 1920 Lord Curzon obtained from George V for his daughter's wedding the loan of the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace, London.

To the nuptials came not only Their Britannic Majesties, but also King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, she arriving by air from Brussels. Just four years after the smartest bride & groom in England left the altar of the Chapel Royal, he entered the House of Commons as a Laborite (i. e., a Socialist). Five years later she did the same (TIME, Nov. 11, 1929).

Mosley campaign methods are brazen, breezy and effective. They electioneer from a limousine, confounding tattered hecklers with the question: "Why shouldn't we be comfortable?" She kisses babies without bothering to doff her pearls. The only downright campaign lie he tells is this:

"Beer is my drink! I have always liked beer."†

Sir Oswald's Record: Educated for the army at Sandhurst; fought in France with the 16th Lancers, later with the Royal Flying Corps; first returned to Parliament as a Conservative in the "Khaki Election" of 1918; returned as an Independent in 1922 and 1923; returned as a Laborite in 1926 by beer-loving Smethwick.

One ministry Sir Oswald has held: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1929-30). In this post he helped Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas explore schemes for relieving unemployment, quarreled violently with Mr. Thomas' laissez faire conclusions, resigned from "the do-nothing MacDonald Cabinet" (TIME, June 2).

"Our Only Hope!" As he lay abed snuffling last week, several portents appeared to please Sir Oswald Mosley:

No man of cabinet rank had yet resigned to join his New Party; but from the cabinet there did resign last week his friend Sir Charles Trevelyan, president of the board of education.