Graham Seton-Hutchinson and the NSWP

I haven't been posting on the Blog for about a week due in no small part to my being constantly harassed when I put on any article concerning a National Front which I attended recently. I had to remove an article last week and then another two which I knew would just bring yet another threatening e-mail from the powers that be at the top of the NF.
So far I have been threatened with legal action for using the NF logo - accused of being person whom the NF (i.e two of them on the Directorate) considers undesirable for announcing the Doncaster Mayoral election (after I gave up Easter weekend to write the manifesto). I would like to point out that I do support the NF and have never written a bad word about them - all the threats and accusations have come from a Cabal of a few Directorate members who seem to be pursuing a personal HATE campaign against me.. I am not going to mention any names or other details as I am sure this will enrage the people in question into more bouts of paranoia. Even this explanation - as I write it - I have to think what can I say that will not seem anti-NF.
Until my hands are untied and as I have many good friends in the Movement and remain one of the few founder NF members still active on the Nationalist scene I will have to keep silent on what I know is going disastrously wrong in the NF - and all because of......well maybe I have said too much already......
Maybe things will change and this will stop - or will not - in which case my own options are then open to other projects.

I was sent this as a link from Bill Baillie's NATION revisited sited (link on this Blog).
I am reproducing it because I thought I knew most of what there is to know about the 1930's Fascist scene in the UK but have never come across the NSWP before - quite a revalation. Read on......

The Mad Major  and
The popular author Alan Sillitoe was one of the “Angry Young Men” who wrote kitchen sink dramas like “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.” But his 1972 book “Raw Material” plumbed new depths of class-war propaganda when he accused Lt Colonel Graham Seton-Hutchinson of murdering deserters during WW1.

All of the British fascist leaders had distinguished military careers in WW1. Oswald Mosley served in the Lancers and the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front. Arnold Leese served in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in France and the Middle East. And Rotha Lintorn-Orman drove ambulances under fire and was decorated for her part in the Serbian campaign. But Graham Seton-Hutchinson captured the imagination of his readers with glowing accounts of his wartime exploits.

He was born in 1890. After serving with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in Africa he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914 and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the Machine Gun Corps. He was opposed to retreat under any circumstances and was linked to an incident in March 1918. In his published memoir “I Was There” he explained his actions:

“We discovered at the Belle Croix Estaminet, a crowd of stragglers, fighting drunk. We routed them out and with a machine gun trained on them we sent them back towards the enemy. They perished to a man.”

He was mentioned four times in dispatches and awarded the MC and the DSO. In 1921 Kenneth Alford penned his stirring march “The Mad Major” in his honour.   

He stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Party candidate in Uxbridge in 1923 but soon became disillusioned with democracy. He flirted with Rotha Lintorn-Orman’s British Fascists, Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and Arnold Leese’s Imperial Fascist League before founding the British Empire Fascist Party in 1933. This was renamed the National Socialist Workers’ Party and modelled on the German Nazi Party.

In 1936 he accused Labour Party leader Clement Attlee of being a Jewish warmonger. Attlee sued for libel but withdrew the action when Seton-Hutchison apologised.

Graham Setton-Hurchinson

He was given privileged access to the Nuremberg rallies and his sympathetic articles were published in German and Austrian newspapers.

The NSWP was a tiny movement compared to the BUF but it was active in the East End of London and joined Maule Ramsay MP and the other fascist parties in the peace campaign co-ordinated by the Nordic League. That ended in 1940 when Winston Churchill used the threat of invasion to round up most of the leading fascists under the infamous Defence Regulation 18B. Graham Seton-Hutchinson wrote to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden volunteering for active service and offering to reorganise the Machine Gun Corps, but his offer was not taken up. He survived the war and died in 1946 at the age of 56.

The fascist leaders can’t be dismissed as traitors because they fought bravely for the British Empire in the First World War. In 1939 Oswald Mosley ordered his followers to fight for King and Country, and so did Arnold Leese. AK Chesterton and Graham Seton-Hutchinson volunteered for military service but William Joyce and John Amery actively supported the Axis cause and paid with their lives. (And in my opinion, Bill were and are martyrs for their National-Socialist beliefs - there was no braver patriot than William Joyce - hanged on 3rd January 1946 to serve the interests of the Internationalist Zionist Behemoth which had started the war in the first place - Eddy)

When the German lawyer Horst Mahler was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for Holocaust denial in 2009 he was asked why he changed from supporting the Baader Meinhoff terrorists in the 1970s to trying to revive National Socialism. He replied that his politics had changed but he still had the same enemies.

The same is true of the pre-war British nationalist movements. There was a world of difference between the interventionist policies of Oswald Mosley and the obsessive racism of Arnold Leese - but they had the same enemies.