Signed typewritten letter to Lieut.-Col. Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore
by Hore-Belisha, Rt Hon Leslie
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Typewritten letter, 25cm x 20cm. 1pp. signed and addended in blue ink to Lieut.-Col. Sir Thomas Moore, C.B.E., M.P. 186 Piccadilly W1. On headed notepaper, dated 23rd January 1948. Regarding the Yugoslav Aid Committee, mentioning the Duchess of Atholl, Moore's son-in-law James Harrower and Moore's daughter Priscilla. Short fold split to edge.
Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha Liberal MP, Cabinet Minister, Secretary of State for War, dismissed in 1940, revealing widespread anti-Semitism in government. Oswald Mosely calling him a "Jewish Warmonger", Henry Pownall called him a "political jewboy". H.G. Wells named him in "The Shape of Things to Come" 1934 – prophetically it turned out. (Belisha Beacons were introduced by him)
Lieut. Col. Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore MP for Ayr 1925-1964. In the 1930's he publicly supported Adolf Hitler and the policies of Nazism.
The British Yugoslav Aid Committee under the chairmanship of the Duchess of Atholl, Sir Thomas Moore M.P.: Post Holocaust and Tito-Stalin split aid for Yugoslavia.
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- Seller
- Paul Haynes Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Biblio509
- Title
- Signed typewritten letter to Lieut.-Col. Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore
- Author
- Hore-Belisha, Rt Hon Leslie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- s.n.
- Place of Publication
- Picaddilly, London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 25cm x 20cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Yugoslavia, Tito, Stalin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Europe; Military History; Provenance, Bookplates and Associations; Politics; Ephemera: adverts, albums and catalogues etc;
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