This clip is of David Frost interviewing Sir Oswald Mosley in 1967 and it's interesting how the same issues come up.
For you non-Brits who may not know, Mosley was in the thirties our very own British fascist and, second only to Adolf Hitler himself, was the big bogey-man of my childhood. So, like any other Jewish kid growing up in the fifties and sixties, I was thoroughly immersed in tales of fascist terror in the then Jewish East End and of Jewish heroism heroism à la the Battle of Cable Street.
Like with so many things, it was only later that I heard the other point of view so my guess now is that the picture of Sir Oswald as evil personified is wildly inaccurate - though I'm sure he wasn't quite as innocent as in this clip, he would have us believe.
Of one thing I'm sure. Whatever Oswald Mosley may or may not have been he could never match the horribleness of the young, bumptious and ever- sneering, David Frost.
For you non-Brits who may not know, Mosley was in the thirties our very own British fascist and, second only to Adolf Hitler himself, was the big bogey-man of my childhood. So, like any other Jewish kid growing up in the fifties and sixties, I was thoroughly immersed in tales of fascist terror in the then Jewish East End and of Jewish heroism heroism à la the Battle of Cable Street.
Like with so many things, it was only later that I heard the other point of view so my guess now is that the picture of Sir Oswald as evil personified is wildly inaccurate - though I'm sure he wasn't quite as innocent as in this clip, he would have us believe.
Of one thing I'm sure. Whatever Oswald Mosley may or may not have been he could never match the horribleness of the young, bumptious and ever- sneering, David Frost.
