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3 unusual facts about Douglas Francis Jerrold


Douglas Francis Jerrold

Jerrold also joined the January Club, founded by Oswald Mosley in January 1934 in order to generate sympathy and some element of respectability for fascism, and in particular to court conservative opinion.

Sidelined in mainstream politics, Jerrold became editor of The English Review, which he ran from 1931 to 1935, advocating "real Toryism as opposed to the plutocratic Conservatism represented by the official party" under the relatively liberal leadership of Stanley Baldwin.

As editor of The English Review from 1931 to 1935, he was a vocal supporter of fascism in Italy and of Catholic Nationalism in Spain.



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