
Support for Nazism and Fascism
In early 1934, Rothermere and the Mail were sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists[9]. Rothermere wrote an article, 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts', in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his 'sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine'[10], though after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF, the Mail withdrew its support for Mosley.
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In early 1934, Rothermere and the Mail were sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists[9]. Rothermere wrote an article, 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts', in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his 'sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine'[10], though after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF, the Mail withdrew its support for Mosley.