Robert Row was an English fascist from Lancaster, a member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists who was detained by the British government under Defence Regulation 18B during the Second World War.
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12 Facts About Robert Row
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Robert Row left school in 1931, by his own account during the Sterling crisis of that year, when Britain left the Gold Standard.
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In Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, Row saw policies that would put Britain first and "banish the slump".
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Robert Row became highly active in the movement, but with the outbreak of the Second World War, he was detained by the British government under the newly-introduced Defence Regulation 18B.
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Robert Row spent time at Walton prison and was held for a time at a prison camp near Huyton, where the most prominent inmate was John Beckett.
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Robert Row was released late during the war, joined the British Army and served in Palestine.
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Robert Row was editor of all of those titles until the closure of Sanctuary Press in 1992.
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Robert Row was assaulted or intimidated several times during his fascist activities.
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Robert Row was close to Raven Thomson politically and in the early 1950s supported his view that the Union Movement should move closer to neo-Nazism, which was gaining some support in Germany, rather than Mosley's unpopular "Europe a Nation" policy.
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Robert Row remained a committed fascist until his death and continued to contribute to publications of the offshoots of the BUF until the end, such as Comrade, newsletter of the Friends of Oswald Mosley.
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Robert Row's ashes were scattered by his niece in Lancashire at a site on which he and his brothers cycled in his youth.
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