National Socialist League
National Socialist League | |
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John Angus MacNab | |
Founded | 1937 |
Dissolved | 1939 |
Split from | British Union of Fascists |
Newspaper | The Helmsman |
Ideology | Nazism |
Political position | Far-right |
Colours | Red White Blue |
Slogan | "Steer Straight" |
Part of a series on |
Nazism |
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The National Socialist League (NSL) was a short-lived
Formation
The NSL was formed in 1937 by
Whatever the truth, the NSL began fairly healthily as Joyce secured the financial backing of Alexander Carron Scrimgeour, a stockbroker, and soon the NSL was able to publish its own newspaper, The Helmsman, adopting 'Steer Straight' as the party motto.[3] The party's ideology was based on a document published by Joyce entitled National Socialism Now in which he declared his strong admiration for Adolf Hitler but added that what was needed was a specifically British Nazism.[4] The Carlyle Club, a political and social discussion club modelled after the January Club and named for Thomas Carlyle, one of Joyce's favourite philosophers, was also established as an arm of the NSL.[5]
Development
Connections were quickly established with the
In 1938, the NSL became associated with the
Decline
Joyce became embittered and increasingly turned to alcohol, while politically his vision of a British Nazism gave way to a more direct copy of German Nazism; Chesterton states that he started ending NSL meetings by shouting "
Towards the end of the
See also
References
- ^ Benewick 1969, p. 272.
- ^ Griffiths 1983, p. 279.
- ^ a b Kenny 2003, p. 146.
- ^ Thurlow 1987, p. 171.
- ^ Cole, p. 80
- ^ Thurlow 1987, p. 80.
- ^ Dorril 2007, p. 433.
- ^ Dorril 2007, p. 460.
- ^ Dorril 2007, pp. 413–414.
- ^ Thurlow 1987, p. 172.
- ^ Kenny 2003, p. 149.
- ^ Kenny 2003, p. 147.
- ^ Thurlow 1987, pp. 97–98.
- ^ Kenny 2003, pp. 147–148.
- ^ Kenny 2003, pp. 149–150.
- ^ Kenny 2003, pp. 155–156.
- ^ Cole, p. 88
- ^ Dorril 2007, p. 525.
Bibliography
- Beckett, Francis (2016). Fascist in the Family: The Tragedy of John Beckett, MP, Routledge.
- Benewick, Robert (1969). Political Violence & Public Order: A Study of British Fascism. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0713900859.
- Cole, J.A. (1987). Lord Haw-Haw: The Full Story of William Joyce, London: Faber & Faber.
- Dorril, Stephen (2007). Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-025821-9.
- ISBN 978-0-19-285116-1.
- Holmes, Colin (2016). Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce, Routledge.
- OCLC 56538643.
- ISBN 978-0-631-13618-7.