53 “You’ve got to have an extreme right front” – Anthony O’Grady, “Dictatorship: The Next Step?”, NME, August 23, 1975.
54 “my whole life would be transformed” – Buckley, p. 231.
55 “a theatrical observation” – Quoted in ibid., p. 253.
56 “a formidable vigilante group” and “We are not Fascists” – Daily Express, February 1, 1974.
57 “committed to a left-wing programme” – “Firm Action for a Fair Britain”, Conservative Party general election manifesto, February 1974.
58 “scrubbing our minds clean” – Andy Beckett, Pinochet in Piccadilly (Faber & Faber, 2003), p. 173.
59 “more open-minded” – Quoted in ibid., p. 84.
60 “All right” – Quoted in ibid., p. 85.
61 “the only outcome” – Quoted in Dominic Sandbrook, Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979 (Allen Lane, 2012), p. 129.
62 “Today, because of the strikes” – Maugham, pp. 31–32.
63 “the Communist Trojan horse” and “Perhaps the country might choose” – Quoted in Beckett, p. 196.
64 “the militants of the neo-Marxist left” – Lord Chalfont, “Could Britain Be Heading for a Military Takeover?”, London Times, August 5, 1974.
65 “apprehensive patriots” – Dorril and Ramsay, p. 265.
66 “Although I don’t for a moment” – Benn diaries, August 22, 1974, in Against the Tide, p. 220.
67 “What is certain” – London Times, May 8, 1975.
68 “looking at the faces of the Junta” – Benn diaries, January 20, 1976, in Against the Tide, p. 501.
69 One leaked dossier – See Dorril and Ramsay, p. 258.
70 “all these fears of bureaucracy” – Philip Whitehead, The Writing on the Wall: Britain in the Seventies (Michael Joseph, Ltd., 1985), p. 216.
71 “you do not pit Hamlet” – Robert Moss, The Collapse of Democracy (Temple Smith, 1975), p. 277.
72 “It is a cold world” – Ibid., p. 35.