Firing Line Interview – Oswald Mosley & William F. Buckley

Firing Line Interview – Oswald Mosley & William F. Buckley

A great career in politics had been predicted for Sir Oswald Mosley, until he shocked Britain by founding his fascist party just as Hitler was consolidating power in Germany. This proves to be a rich, if surreal, conversation.

Mosley: “Do you really think that flowery speeches like that [Churchill’s at Yalta saying that Stalin was “a friend whom we can trust”]… had any effect on a man who had gone the long and dusty road from Siberia to the Kremlin, or that he could be won over by Mr. Churchill drinking his toast? The whole concept was ridiculous, and no wonder clever and able and shrewd American conservatives… are alarmed when Mr. Nixon goes to China and has feasts and all the rest of it.”