Richard Reynall Bellamy was actually National Inspector and Director of Propaganda of the British Union of Fascists, as Pete once told me himself with a certain amount of pride in his tone ~~ "Mosley's No 2 of Blackshirts," was his own description of his late father.

He was largely a-political, though tending rightward himself; but he disliked concepts of "positive discrimination" in favour of perceived minorities at the expense of the majority population, saying it was bound to lead to resentment. I don't, however, think that his sudden diminution in popularity, which paradoxically coincided with his greatest success, the issue of The Transports, was politically based ~~ thought it exercised him then, and exercises me still. "The Transports was a runaway success," he once said to me in a tone of complete puzzlement, "since when my career has gone ppppfffff" ~~ &, as related by another acquaintance above, he showed me his pretty-well empty engagement diary. And it wasn't too long after that we got that phone-call from Jenny.

It a remains a mystery to me to this day.

~Michael~