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Martyby 08:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)martybyMartyby 08:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)hello, does anyone agree that Williamson's support for the Nazi philosophy is considerably overstated in the article? I believe that his love of the English country and of honest, open approach to political, social and economic life was much more significany - viz The Children of Shallowford and The Story of a Norfolk Farm. essentially he was rather fooled by the outward trappings of Nazism and really approached it in a naive and wishful way.

Any thoughts?

Martyby 08:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)martybyMartyby 08:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

193.32.3.83 03:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC) Particularly I wonder what's with the giant box of "far-right in the United Kingdom". From the bottom of this article you'd think Williamson was a prominent Nazi who happened to toss off a couple of novels on the side. What possible relevance is there to a large list of groups he didn't belong to and in some cases isn't even a contemporary of? 193.32.3.83 03:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

In the introduction to "Tales of Moorland and Estuary" Williamson refers to his opposition to the second world War and the tendency of the white race to destroy itself in an unjustified war. This is probably the key to his support for Mosley- motivated by appeasement rather than hatred, although he probably felt that the War was in Jewish interests. I believe that his politics were important to him- and to the neo-Fascist websites like "Friends of Oswald Mosley" who claim him as their own. However the quality of his literature is very good and, being predominantly on nature subjects, unaffected by his politics, and a reader ignorant of this background would not know from his texts. Streona 16:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)