Peter Huxley-Blythe (16 November 1925 – 18 August 2013) was a British author and fascist.
Early life
Huxley-Blythe was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the son of Annie Huxley and Henry Blythe. His 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". Shortly after his birth, his family moved to London.". His parents' marriage broke up when he was young and he was brought up by his mother. He attended Chapel Royal Hampton Court and the St Mary of the Angels school, where he specilised in choir singing. As a teenager, he was strongly attracted to the British Union of Fascists movement led by Sir Oswald Mosely. He attended the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and in 1939 he was assigned to the training ship HMS Arethusa. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Navy in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. He went to sea in 1942, and served abroad HMS Renown for two years. He then served on abroad HMS Highflyer, HMS Virago and HMS Rapid.
Fascism
An extreme anti-communist with a hankering for authoritarian leadership, Huxley-Blythe, after his honourable discharge from the Navy was a member of the revived British Union Movement led by Mosely as the British Union of Fascists been renamed, but he become close to the American thinker Francis Parker Yockey. When Yockey broke with Mosely, Huxley-Blythe followed the former into the European Liberation Front (ELF). Huxley-Blythe shared Yockey's fears about the "cultural-racial decline" of the West, and like him saw the United States as a "mongelised" society that was a corrupting influence on the rest of the world. The "12-point plan" of the ELF, which was partially written by Huxley-Blythe called "the immediate expulsion of all Jews and other parasitic aliens from the Soil of Europe" together with the "cleansing of the Soul of Europe from the ethical syphilis of Hollywood". In 1950, Huxley-Blythe who had remained an officer with the Royal Naval Reserve was called up to service during the Korean War and lost touch with Yockey. During his Korean War service, he got to know a Lieutenant Hillary Cotter, a self-proclaimed "Catholic fascist" who was to influence his thinking. It was through Cotter that Huxley-Blythe first learned of the Russian Liberation Army, better known as the Vlasov Army, which became a subject that was to greatly interest him for the rest of his life. His interest in the Russian Liberation Army was "change radically his views about Russia".
After his return from Korea, Huxley-Blythe resumed his far-right associations. He said he broke with Yockey over what he claimed were his 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, Huxley-Blythe wrote to the Canadian fascist Adrien Arcand asking for permission to publish in German his anti-Semitic pamphlet La Clé du mystère, writing: "I’m anxious to obtain two hundred (200) copies of your excellent work, The Key to the Mystery as soon as possible to fulfill an order I have received from Germany". Permission was granted, and on 27 February 1952 he wrote to Arcand for permission to print up 300 more copies of La Clé du mystère for sale in Great Britain. During this time, he served as a mentor to Colin Jordan. He served the editor of the ELF's journal Frontfighter and of the Anglo-German Natinform (Nationalist Information Bureau). The Natinform was a joint venture between A. F. X. Baron and Huxley-Blythe, and fell apart when the two quarreled in 1958.
At some point in the 1950s, 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. Huxley-Blythe became involved in the quizzical plans to restore the House of Romanov to the Russian throne. Taking up the quarrels of the Russian emigres as his own, Hulxley-Blythe was relentless in attacking the NTS (Nacional'no Trudovoj Sojuz-National Alliance of Russian Solidarists) as a pro-Soviet group, using the fact that the CIA sometimes financed the NTS as proof that the group was really working for the Soviet Union.
