The Archive · 1937

Sir Oswald Mosley

while walls were covered with slogans such as Arrest "Mosley "Down with Fascism." The counter-demonstrators were forming a human wall to stop Sir Oswald's followers whose way had to be fought through by- he police.

A crowd of about 25,000 awaited the Fascists at Trafalgar Square and began singing the "Internationale" as soon as the procession appeared.

Another brief speech was delivered by Sir Oswald under a hat of all kinds of missiles and violent protests from the crowd.

Many arrests, all temporary, were made by the police—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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