France/Italy/UK 20th Century Political Movements
1960 French publication Politique éclair : le mensuel de l'élite française “flash politics. The monthly for the French elite”. 47 pages. No American library holds this..
NOTE: Politique Éclair is a former French publication, often referred to as "the weekly of the French elite" that lasted from 1960 to late 1962/1963. It was geared towards nationalist and far-right circles. In August 1962, it published a 32-page supplement entitled "For a Positive Critique," written by activists and prominent figures of the time (notably Dominique Venner) while they were imprisoned. This text served as a manifesto to theorize a new political direction after the Algerian War.
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Broadside published by the Liberal Democrats shortly after the war warning of the dangers of communism. Titled: The Results of the Dominion Established by the Bolshevik Socialists. It shows the number of people starved to death, suicide by hanging and shooting, made invalid through torture, blinded, massacred, dead from cold in both Hungary and Russia. “and the system continues”. It ends with the request to vote Liberal. B
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Broadside outlining the duties of females in the Volunteer Auxillary Services. It reads: Duties of the Volunteer in the Auxiliary Service. Membership in the Female Auxiliary Service must be a reason for pride and an example of dignity. The auxiliaries are therefore reminded to strictly observe the rules that regulate their behavior in and out of services. The voluntary choice made by them of the way of honor must be the viaticum that accompanies them in facing the sacrifices, which are a guarantee of sure will and unshakable certainty. It goes on to list specific duties in the area of Discipline, Equipment, Hygiene, Service and Demeanor and Morale. B
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Manuscript letter written by Lady Constance Milnes Glaskett on June 5, 1939 from Marlborough House, to Cedric Jackson in Port Dalhousie, Ontario. She is thanking him for a poem he sent and recalls Queen Mary’s visit it Canada and that she is currently recovering from an automobile accident. B
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Note: Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell, DCVO (née Knox; 21 April 1885 – 29 April 1964) was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937–53 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953–60. Lady Constance was the second daughter of Constance (née Caulfeild) and the 5th Earl of Ranfurly, who was later Governor of New Zealand from 1897–1904. On 7 November 1905, she married Maj. Evelyn Milnes Gaskell, a son of Rt. Hon. Charles Milnes Gaskell. Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell died in 1964, eight days after her 79th birthday.
EPM 210Very rare 1935 broadside for the Swedish Nationalist Socialist Bloc. m
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Note: from Wikipedia: The National Socialist Bloc (in Swedish: Nationalsocialistiska Blocket) was a Swedish national socialist political party formed in the end of 1933 by the merger of Nationalsocialistiska Samlingspartiet, Nationalsocialistiska Förbundet and local National Socialist units connected to the advocate Sven Hallström in Umeå. Later Svensk Nationalsocialistisk Samling merged into NSB. The leader of the party was Colonel Martin Ekström. The party maintained several publications, Landet Fritt (Gothenburg), Vår Kamp (Gothenburg), Vår Front (Umeå), Nasisten (Malmö) and Riksposten. NSB differentiated itself from other Swedish National Socialist groups due to its liaisons with the Swedish upper class. NSB was clearly smaller than the two main National Socialist parties in Sweden at the time, SNSP and NSAP. Gradually the party vanished.
