20 Facts About Peter Huxley-Blythe

Peter Huxley-Blythe was a British author and fascist.

Peter Huxley-Blythe's father was a self-proclaimed "consultant hypnotist" who often worked as a stage hypnotist in the music halls and once ran as a candidate for the Labour Party under the slogan "Look into my Eyes and Vote for Me".

Peter Huxley-Blythe attended Chapel Royal Hampton Court and the St Mary of the Angels school, where he specilised in choir singing.

Peter Huxley-Blythe attended the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and in 1939 he was assigned to the training ship HMS Arethusa.

Peter Huxley-Blythe went to sea in 1942, and served abroad HMS Renown for two years.

Peter Huxley-Blythe then served on abroad HMS Highflyer, HMS Virago and HMS Rapid.

When Yockey broke with Mosley, Peter Huxley-Blythe followed the former into the European Liberation Front.

Peter Huxley-Blythe shared Yockey's fears about the "cultural-racial decline" of the West, and like him saw the United States as a "mongrelised" society that was a corrupting influence on the rest of the world.

The 12-point plan of the ELF, which was partially written by Peter Huxley-Blythe, called for "the immediate expulsion of all Jews and other parasitic aliens from the Soil of Europe" and the "cleansing of the Soul of Europe from the ethical syphilis of Hollywood".

Peter Huxley-Blythe claimed he broke with Yockey over what he claimed were Yockey's pro-Soviet views, writing in a letter to the FBI in 1961 that he ceased associating with Yockey when the latter "praised Soviet policy in Germany" and urged his followers "to help him organise secret partisan bands of neo-Nazis in West Germany, bands which would collaborate with the Soviet Military Authorities against the Western occupation powers".

On 2 February 1952, Peter Huxley-Blythe wrote to the Canadian fascist Adrien Arcand, asking for permission to publish in German his anti-Semitic pamphlet La Cle du mystere, writing: "I'm anxious to obtain two hundred copies of your excellent work, The Key to the Mystery as soon as possible to fulfill an order I have received from Germany".

Peter Huxley-Blythe served as editor of the ELF's journal Frontfighter and of the Anglo-German Natinform.

At some point in the 1950s, Peter Huxley-Blythe became friends with a George Knupffer, the self-proclaimed tutor and adviser to the Grand Duke Vladimir, the son of Grand Duke Kirill, the pretender to the Russian throne.

Peter Huxley-Blythe first came to widespread notice with his 1955 book Betrayal: The Story of Russian Anti-Communism where he argued that the West was losing the Cold War and claimed that CIA was actually supporting communist groups.

Peter Huxley-Blythe attracted a following among the elements of American right disenchanted with Eisenhower, who had been elected president in 1952 on a platform calling for the "rollback" of communism, but in office pursued the same "containment" policy as Harry Truman.

Peter Huxley-Blythe compared the nuclear deterrence policies of the Eisenhower administration to the Maginot Line, demanding that the West undertake an offensive foreign policy to liquidate the Soviet Union once and for all.

Peter Huxley-Blythe's coverage was turned into the 2011 book The Eichmann Trial: An Incredible Spectacle by a Protestant fundamentalist minister from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gerald S Pope, who served as an editor of the American Mercury.

Peter Huxley-Blythe founded the Blythe College of Hypnotherapy and lectured in both the United Kingdom and Sweden on the alleged medical benefits of hypnotism.

Peter Huxley-Blythe claimed to be awarded a PhD in Psychosomatic Medicine at an unnamed American university.

Peter Huxley-Blythe was closely involved in the INPP until a year before his death, and the institute is headed by his widow Sally.