Sowerbutt's Freedom

With thousands of members of the British Union of Fascists or the Blackshirts detained under the Emergency Powers regulations since the outbreak of war, Poplar, the beating heart of London’s East End, was a promising posting with plenty of political action for an ambitious Special Branch officer. The notorious Battle of Cable Street in nearby Whitechapel when 7,000 or more Blackshirts marched and then fought a vicious running street battle with their political opponents had only taken place four years earlier. Many other Blackshirt meetings held across the poverty-stricken East End suburbs had also ended in violence. What puzzled the bald-headed sergeant, who carefully cultivated his large mutton-chop sideboards, was how Sowerbutt and his dubious Blackshirt cronies managed to avoid the long trip to the Isle of Man and the other emergency internment camps hurriedly set up to detain enemy aliens and sympathisers. But that was the superintendent’s call, not his. amazon.co.uk/Colour-Lemon-Surrender-1940-ebook/dp/B008USR7FA