NEWS ........

Dateline 16th June 2004

Introduction and Commentary by Rodney Atkinson

INTRODUCTION I can see no difference between that which Oswald Mosley as an individual and the 1962 fascist "National Party of Europe" set out below and that in which Kenneth Clarke, Michael Heseltine, Edward Heath, Tony Blair, Chirac, Kohl, Schroeder, Mitterand etc believed as they were creating the "Country called Europe" (as the European Commission describes the European Union). It is instructive to see what these fascists were calling for in the 1960s and how those very ideas have been realised by 2004 in European treaties.

It was Kenneth Clarke who as a young student in the Cambridge University Conservative Association invited Oswald Mosley to speak and the young Michael Howard resigned in protest! We can see below what unites a eurofanatic anti democrat like Kenneth Clarke and the former leader of the British Union of Fascists.

Until the Conservative Party recognises the kind of public liabilities it harbours in its midst then that party will never gather a genuine Conservative consensus which will win an election. Rather it will be seen as just another version of Blairite corporatist anti-democracy and will remain irrelevant. (For a comparison of the beliefs and political practice of Blair, Hitler and Mussolini see the book Fascist Europe Rising chapter 4 page 123)

The following are extracts (with commentary by RA) from the website run by the "Friends of Oswald Mosley" www.oswaldmosley.com

Oswald Mosley on "Policies for Present and Future":

AFTER the war my policies were deliberately in advance of the time and I did not for a moment deceive myself that they could all immediately be implemented. (nothing wrong with that if they run with the grain of historical emancipation - ie giving more freedom to people and communities in general, reducing the power of the State, reducing the power of myth and superstition, increasing the influence of market choice and the freedom of international trade. But Mosley tended towards the opposite of all these ideas and he harked back to the 1930s and 1940s, not least in the notion of a centralised, corporatist European Superstate)

The reader at this stage of the story may be willing to credit me with a residue of realism behind all my intransigence; in the end there must always be a considerable element of compromise to get practical things done. Moreover, in my experience of British politics there have always been several ways of doing what was necessary. The trouble so far has been the resistance to getting anything done in time. These policies therefore are a sign of direction, not a final encampment. At this point it was indicated that someone should try to see a glimpse of light through the surrounding gloom of passion and confusion. My key policies were:-

* Europe a Nation (destruction of organic nation states which could support democracy)
* The Wage-Price Mechanism, (corporatism, Statism, interventionism, anti-liberalism)
* The linking of science with an effective machine of government.(pseudo science -scientism - central organising State, authoritarianism)

It may be convenient in a review of these ideas to consider external policy before the home policy, on whose success all else depends.

I was the first to use the phrase Europe a Nation, in 1948, and it was preceded by my advocacy of an 'extension of patriotism' (1946). I wrote in Europe: Faith and Plan (1958): 'Europe a Nation is an idea which anyone can understand. It is simple, but should not on that account be rejected; most decisive, root ideas are simple. Ask any child: what is a nation? He will probably reply, "a nation has a government!'" (Indeed one would have to ask a child to get such a foolish answer. Of course a nation state is the largest entity which can support a democracy, not merely a government. This requires principally the acceptance by all minorities in a cause of the rule of the majority in any cause)

This is the right answer, for a nation consists of a people or of peoples who have decided to have the same government. I believed and I still believe this is the way in which Europe will be made; no lesser idea will arouse the enthusiasm of the peoples to make changes so far-reaching. Yet it is probable that neither this nor any other idea will awaken the will to bold reform until the urge of economic necessity is felt. (In fact intelligent people knew then and most know now that the emergence of the European State has had the exact opposite effect - mass unemployment, mass indifference, democratic abstention followed by animosity. The true enthusiasm now centres on the revival of national parliaments and national sovereignty. In fact it was the avoidance of popular expression of their will which allowed eurofanatic politicians to go behind the backs of their respective peoples and achieve Euro-State power by stealth)

At a moment of supreme crisis the will to Europe a Nation can arise everywhere from the soil (this is a German nationalist concept - Boden, as in Blut und Boden, blood and soil - which does not readily translate into "soil") of Europe, like a primeval fire. (note the basic primitive violence of this expression, useful to those who know that those who will not agree or who would rather seek democratic reason will be swept along by "primeval destiny") First must come the idea." (A democrat, a Conservative and liberal would always be wary of ideas coming first - the temptation is to shoe horn human kind into them regardless of the cost! The legend of Procrustes comes to mind)

National Party of Europe

Decisions by the Conference (1962)

THE parties represented were the Union Movement of Great Britain, the Reichspartei of Germany, Jeune Europe and Movement d'Action Civique of Belgium, and the Movemiento Socialiste Italiano of Italy which organised the Conference in Venice. (Note how for Germans - and not just extremists - the idea of the Reich is the same as the idea of "Europe")

The parties represented, accepted and have signed the European Declaration as amended by the Conference, the original declaration having been accepted in advance by all parties present, subject to consideration in detail and amendment by Conference.

The Conference decided as soon as possible to constitute a Bureau de Liaison between the national parties of Europe who have accepted a united policy, Fourth of March I962. The Conference further resolved that the representatives of the parties should henceforth meet every two months to maintain liaison.

The Conference recommended the parties represented, and all other parties which may adhere to the declaration to change their party names to The National Party of Europe. The British, Belgian and German representatives expressed their intention at once to ask their parties to make this change of name.

The Conference further expressed the hope that the parties represented would as soon as possible go beyond the already accepted principle of common policy and regular liaison, to accept the principle of central direction - This means that equal representatives of the parties will meet regularly at a round table and will direct in principle common action of the parties which will be carried out in detail by the parties in their respective countries".

THE EUROPEAN DECLARATION AS AMENDED AND APPROVED BY CONFERENCE

WE, being Europeans conscious of a tradition which derives from classic Greece and Rome, and of a civilisation which during three thousand years has given thought, beauty, science and leadership to mankind, (and the Inquisition, the Holocaust, 50 million deaths in two world wars, Napoleon, Hitler, the bloody French and Russian revolutions, Fascism, National Socialism, Communism ……) and feeling for each other the close relationship of a great family whose quarrels in the past have proved the heroism of our peoples but whose division in the future would threaten the life of our continent with the same destruction which extinguished the genius of Hellas and led to the triumph of alien values, now declare with pride our European communion of blood and of spirit in the following urgent and practical proposals of our new generation which challenge present policies of division, delay and subservience to the destructive materialism of external powers before which the splendour of our history, the power of our economy, the nobility of our traditions and the inspiration of our ideals must never be surrendered:

That Europe a Nation shall forthwith be made a fact. This means that Europe shall have a common government for purposes of foreign policy, defence, economic policy, finance and scientific development."