GILMAN, Richard -- Behind World Revolution, The Strange Career of Nesta Webster
1982 book
by Richard Gilman entitled: "Behind
World Revolution: The Strange Career of Nesta H. Webster" (111 pages).
Nesta
Helen Webster (neé Bevan; 24 August 1876 - 16 May 1960) was a British
conspiracy theorist whose publications informed many right-wing conspiracy
arguments in the UK and in the United States (including being recommended and
sold by the John Birch Society).
Webster
focused upon the Bavarian Illuminati, Freemasonry, and conspiracy theories
involving Jews. She wrote about secret societies which plotted world domination
by using various common conspiracy theories as smokescreens. According to her,
international subversion included the French Revolution, the 1848 Revolution,
the First World War, and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
In 1920,
Nesta Webster was one of the contributing authors who wrote a series of
articles in London's The Morning Post, centered on the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion. These articles were subsequently compiled and
published in the same year, in book form under the title of the The
Cause of World Unrest.
Webster
was involved in several British fascist organizations including the British
Fascists, The Link, and the British Union of Fascists. She was also the leading
writer of the UK magazine entitled The Patriot.
Webster
speech "The Need for Fascism in Britain", [London,
British Fascists, Pamphlet No. 17, 1926]For
more than a decade, I have attempted to find some UK historian or UK library
that actually had a physical copy of Nesta’s 1926 pamphlet entitled “The
Need For Fascism in Great Britain” published by the British
Fascists.
In
2020, I finally found it in the personal papers of A.V. Alexander which are
archived at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, England.
The
front of the pamphlet contains this description: “This Pamphlet
is based on an address given
by Mrs. Nesta
Webster at Kensington Town Hall on Dec 17th., 1926.”
A copy may be seen
here: https://archive.org/details/webster-nesta-the-need-for-fascism-in-great-britain-1926-12ppWebster dismissed the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany as exaggeration and propaganda.See my separate uploads for academic articles on Nesta Webster and her biographical sketch appearing in the Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyHER PUBLICATIONSThe Chevalier De Boufflers: A Romance of the French Revolution, London, John Murray, 1910. Reprints: 1916 ; 1920 ; 1924 ; 1925 ; E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1926.Britain’s Call to Arms: An appeal to our Women, London, Hugh Rees, 1914.The Sheep Track: An Aspect of London Society, London, John Murray, 1914.The French Revolution. A Study in Democracy, London, Constable & Co., 1919. Reprints: 1921 ; 1922 ; 1926 ; Sudbury, Bloomfield Books, 1969.The French Terror and Russian Bolshevism, London, Boswell Printing & Publishing Co., 1920 [?]. OCLC: 22692582World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization, London, Constable & Co., 1921. Reprints: Constable, 1922 ; Chawleigh, The Britons Publishing Co., 1971 ; Sudbury, Bloomfield Books, [1990?].The Past History of the World Revolution. A Lecture, Woolwich, Royal Artillery Institution, 1921.with Kurt Kerlen, Boche and Bolshevik, being a series of articles from the Morning Post of London, reprinted for distribution in the United States, New York, Beckwith, 1923. Reprint: Sudbury, Bloomfield Books, [1990?]. ISBN 1-4179-7949-6Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, London, Boswell Printing & Publishing Co. London, 1924. Reprints: Boswell, 1928 and 1936 ; London, The Britons Publishing Co., London, 1955 and 1964 ; Palmdale, Christian Book Club of America and Sudbury and Sudbury, Bloomfield Books, 198[?] ; Kessinger Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7661-3066-5The Socialist Network, London, Boswell Printing & Publishing Co., 1926. Reprint: Boswell, 1933 ; Sudbury, Bloomfield, [1989?] ; Noontide Press, 2000. ISBN 0-913022-06-3The Surrender of an Empire, London, Boswell Printing & Publishing Co., 1931. Reprint: Sudbury, Bloomfield Books, [1990?].The Origin and Progress of the World Revolution, London, Boswell Printing & Publishing Co., [1932].(with the pseudonym of Julian Sterne), The Secret of the Zodiac, London, Boswell Printing & Publishing Co., 1933.Germany and England, (reprinted from The Patriot and revised), London, Boswell Publishing Co., [1938].Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before the Revolution, London, Constable & Co., 1936. Reprint: Constable, 1937 ; G.P. Putnam's sons, 1937.Spacious Days: An Autobiography, London, Hutchinson, 1949 and 1950.Crowded Hours: part two of her autobiography, manuscript stolen from the Britons library in the early 1970s by an unknown American visitor. It has never been recovered and remains unpublished.Marie-Antoinette in time, Paris, La Table Ronde, 1981 (French translation). ISBN 2-7103-0061-3The Revolution of 1848, [ed. and date unknown]. ISBN 1-4253-7315-1
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