One has long learnt to discount, very heavily, the headlines in Lon-}don's popular papers as any real in-Jdication of public emotion, aut the meute between Fascists and Communists at Sir Oswald Mosley's meet-Ing at Olympia has caused an extraordinary amount of feeling. I have tested this by casual remarks to several young men representative of entirely different mieux and I was surprised at the warmth with which they denounced the Fascists, Among others who have lifted up their voices, some you would never trust for accuracy on any question where Fascism or Communism was concern fed. But the upshot is the discovery. fof a remarkable latent feeling against Fascism generally as something un-English, not wanted, not done. about this "uproar, feeling that the usual good judgment of Englishmen has been wanting. in this instance. "There is no doubt that Jcommunists had been organized to ik up the meeting. Sir Oswald Mosley says that numbers of razors, knuckle-dusters covered with spikes, Dbludgeons, and stockings filled with broken glass to swing against the face were taken from them by his Further, as is very well known, com-/munists have for some time been making a practice of organizing to break up meetings of political op-Ponents, In the recent L.C.C. elec-to hearing. No doubt, impossible for a Conser=
sel sts at Olympia went "all at their opponents but if you have been slashed with a razor or Dashed with a stocking full of glass, for have seen a comrade treated in that way, your temper is apt to rise. The hysteria of those who mouth Jabout the rights of free speech, con-has] veniently ignoring that the com= slightly impatient. One's conclusion that the communists caught expected, not wholly undeserved, tartar, They asked for it and they
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