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1938 · réf. 222733 — London.: The Patriot. 5 May1938. 358-380pp. 24 x 15cm. Leaves somewhat friable wrappers little marked and damp stained though overall a good copy of this scarce publication. A notoriously proto-fascist publication its roots in hardline Toryism with several of its more notable authors also affiliating with the British Union of Fascists. Reeking of antisemitism of the most insidious kind virtually every article has an explicit or implicit connection to a hypothesised far-extending Jewish conspiracy. This particular issue covers such topics as: the national budget shortfall; the evils of cinema; the arrival of Jewish refugees in Britain; the unwelcome conflation of fascism and communism in popular discourse; a denunciation of Katharine Stewart-Murray the Duchess of Atholl; a diatribe against Ireland and Éamon de Valera; and objections to Ceylon potentially demanding self-rule in the future. This ragtag assembly of articles is ultimately topped off with an ominous prediction of the imminent fall of the Soviet Union - itself a product of a "Jewish revolution launched according to the Jewish gospel of Karl Marx". The author declares that "a terrible settling of accounts is being prepared. and Israel will bitterly regret Nicholas II". . The Patriot. unknown