"I like the spirit which informs the document. A scheme of national economic planning to achieve a right, or at least a better, balance of our industries between the old and the new, between agriculture and manufacture, between home development and foreign investment; and wide executive powers to carry out the details of such a scheme. That is what it amounts to. ... [The] manifesto offers us a starting point for thought and action. ... It will shock—it must do so—the many good citizens of this country...who have laissez-faire in their craniums, their consciences, and their bones ... But how anyone professing and calling himself a socialist can keep away from the manifesto is a more obscure matter."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomPeople from LondonGovernment ministersFascistsMemoirists from the United Kingdom
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John Maynard Keynes, 'Sir Oswald Mosley's Manifesto', The Nation and Athenaeum (13 December 1930), quoted in J. M. Keynes, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Activities, 1929–1931, Rethinking Employment and Unemployment Policies (1971), pp. 473-475
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Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980) was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists.
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