Today -100: October 12, 1925: I do not look upon myself as a stunt

Lady Cynthia Mosley, newly adopted Labour parliamentary candidate for Stoke-on-Trent, says “I do not look upon myself as a stunt, as I happen to be very much in earnest, and I do not think it at all odd that I should belong to Labour.” She says there is more culture among the “Red” men from the Clyde than in any Mayfair drawing room. “To attack [her and her husband, future British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Mosley] is only snobbishness the other way round.”

Oxford and Cambridge already ban freshmen having automobiles (not clear when this was implemented) and are considering expanding that to all undergrads. Oxford Vice Chancellor Joseph Wells recently complained about student cars and the speeds at which they are driven in his annual address. In Latin. IN LATIN. Cambridge’s Vice Chancellor Albert Seward recently told the Cambridge Senate (in which ancient language is not revealed) that “The motor habit, when it becomes an obsession, induces a state of mind out of harmony with the best traditions of Cambridge.”

British Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald complains in the London Times about the new Organisation for Maintenance of Supplies, created by the rich and powerful to provide volunteer scabs during any future general strike. MacD calls them “fussy, egotistical private enterprises of a police kind inspired by class and police minds.”

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