Chapter 4: The Razor’s Edge

1  ‘He saw battle’: KV 2/245/1b.

2  ‘Join the Fascisti’: ‘Class War’, Daily Herald, 26 January, 1925.

3  ‘crept like duck-weed’: ‘The “Reds” of Battersea’, The Times, 29 November, 1923.

4  ‘chose from among’: KV 3/57/3a.

5  ‘Pandemonium’: ‘Socialist Hooligans Wreck Opposition Meetings’, Daily Mirror, 23 October, 1924.

6  ‘Scenes of great disorder’: ‘Election Rowdyism’, The Times, 23 October, 1924.

7  ‘untiring in his efforts’: KV 2/245/1a.

8  ‘little short of’: KV 2/245/331b.

9  ‘It wasn’t a Jewish’: Hazel Barr quoted in Colin Holmes, Searching for Lord Haw-Haw (London: Routledge, 2016), 53.

10  ‘These Fascist blackguards’: Farndale, Haw-Haw, 55.