Insiders and outsiders. (twentieth century British historical figures Oswald Mosley, Hugh Dalton, John Maynard Keynes)
History Today, September, 1993 by Miller, John
Mosley was authoritarian but I don't think he was intrinsically more authoritarian than many other political leaders. I wouldn't have thought he was more authoritarian than Margaret Thatcher who was perfectly able to stay within a conventional political system.
If Dalton had been Foreign Secretary a lot of things would have been different, I think, after 1945. It's an interesting example of the way in which a very momentary decision of an almost casual kind can change the way in which a nation's development or indeed international developments can continue for a subsequent period of years.
The biographers of Oswald Mosley and Hugh Dalton were my first two interviewees for the new Radio 4 series of |Conversations with Historians', currently...
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