In the early 1930s there was a branch of the British Union of Fascists in Dublin. At least
once it marched with the Royal British Legion on Armistice Day and the Irish Independent
carried a photograph showing their collaboration.
I’d like to know if Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in Britain marched with the British Legion.
The Irish Independent was generally sympathetic to the Blueshirts, but their leader Eoin
O’Duffy, when Garda Commssioner was no friend of the British, which was provocatively
anti-Irish around Armistice Day.
Despite the fictions of revisionist propagandists, Irishmen who had served in the British
Forces, many of them suckered by British promises of Home Rule, were not rejected
by by their compatriots, nor their records blotted out history. See my BLOG “Two German
Officers, Gallipoli and the Fog of Military History”.My mother had four brothers, three of
whom served in the British Forces. The longest-living of them was a man of violence
by defintion. He was a Christian Brother.
The First World War and the stupidity of Generals such as Haig taught many of the rank
and file to distrust jingoism. When jobless ex- service servicemen witnessed the erection
of the Cenotaph in London’s Whitehall, complained that when they sought Bread they
were offered a Stone the Establishment went to great trouble to revive the Politics of Deference.
The Politics of Deference is alive and kicking the Plebs in Britain today. I don’t know
about the Peasants but their “Betters” are more revolting than ever.
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