“But you will never catch Sir Oswald [Mosley] admitting to anti-Semitism. All he does is embody it. He talked of 'the use of Jewish money power to promote a world war.' Taxed on this point, he disclaimed anti-Semitism, by saying that he meant 'not all Jews, but some Jews.' That's as far as he will ever reduce his estimate. The truth, of course, is that the real number of Jews responsible for World War II was zero.”

— Clive James

'The Truly Strong Man'
Essays and reviews, The Crystal Bucket (1982)

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"Ye are of your father the devil! He was a murderer from the beginning."”

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