Chapter 18: Blackshirts

1  ‘a “hero” in an’: Home Office report, quoted in Dorril, Blackshirt, 247.

2  ‘the greatest Englishman’: Joyce quoted in Farndale, Haw-Haw, 81.

3  ‘You would not believe’: KV 2/1221/44a.

4  ‘one of the dozen finest’: Quoted in Farndale, Haw-Haw, 72.

5  ‘a psychopathic expression’: Francis Selwyn, Hitler’s Englishman (London: Penguin, 1993), 48.

6  ‘whether the time’: HO 45/25386/54-9.

7  ‘MI5 should undertake’: KV 4/140/1x.

8  ‘quite reliable’: KV 3/53/1c.

9  ‘a motor salesman’: Quoted in Liddell Diaries, 10 August, 1940, KV 4/186.

10  ‘there have undoubtedly been’: KV 4/111.

11  ‘The Comintern remained’: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, 190.

12  ‘insists on the common’: KV 3/58/161a.

13  ‘the last of the great’: Dorril, Blackshirt, 286

14  ‘in distinct opposition’: KV 4/331/1z.

15  ‘no evidence whatsoever’: KV 3/53/1c.

16  M’s original spymaster, ‘Don’: KV 3/53/1c and KV 3/53/1e.

17  ‘a far more reliable source’: KV 3/53/1e.

18  ‘It is considered’: Ibid.