A Recent Radio Show trascript from Hugh Hewitt.
The telling point for me:
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“HH: I hope that happens, actually. That would be good to hear reported. Mark Steyn, I’ve been reading…I want to pause in the beginning and thank you for Passing Parade. I was laughing my head off, flying back from Washington, D.C. this morning, with the rest in peace you penned for Diana Mosely. I’d never heard of her. I really didn’t. I had no idea. There’s so much that Americans don’t know about these figures of Europe. And she was really…I didn’t know anything about the Mitford sisters, or anything like that. What an amazing person.
MS: Well, these were a group of sisters who are like a collective Zelig figure. They’re there in almost every aspect of 20th Century history, including right up to…Diana Mosely, Diana Mitford, as she was born, was a facist. Her sister, Jessica, was a communist, and emigrated to the West Coast of America, and ended up working in her law firm. She hired a bright, young student called Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham as she then was in the early 70’s. So they kind of embraced the whole of 20th Century history. You know, Diana Mosely, she married the leader of the British Union of Facists. She was a kind of society facist. Goebbles was her wedding planner. And that was really the kind of…she prided herself on being a kind of great political thinker. But you did get the feeling that it was a kind of society version of facism that she tapped into.
HH: It was appropriate to read her going off, because we’ve had all the facists gathering in Tehran this week. Was she a Holocaust denier as well? Or did she get round to that bit with Hitler?
MS: No, you know, whenever that subject came up, she can never quite bring herself to use the word, the Holocaust. She used to say how much she admired Jews, because they were so clever at keeping the thing, the thing as she always called it, in the public eye. And then she’d have this sort of…she had these beautiful blue limpid eyes, and they’d sort of glaze over, and she’d stare into the far distance, and she’d usually say something like so horrible, in that cut glass English voice, one really can’t imagine it. And in that sense, she was not like Ahmadinejad, you know, who actually sees facts, see established evidence, and utterly rejects it.”
