British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists is identified as the political organization to which John Angus Macnab belonged before fleeing to Spain. The novel places the organization within a wider history of fascist collaboration and postwar refuge: Macnab’s path from British imprisonment to long residence in Spain links a British fascist movement to the networks and individuals sheltered under Franco’s rule.

Membership and Escape

Macnab is described as a member of the British Union of Fascists who was detained and imprisoned in 1940. After escaping custody in 1945, he sought refuge in Spain. His brief biographical entry ties membership to a concrete wartime and postwar trajectory: imprisonment did not end his political associations, and escape carried him beyond Britain into a country where he could remain.

Macnab and Marjorie Munden

In Spain, Macnab’s long-term companion was Marjorie Munden, a British fascist resident there. The two lived together in Madrid for many years. Their relationship places the British Union of Fascists within a cross-border milieu of fascist expatriates, while the account identifies Munden separately as a fascist rather than specifying that she belonged to Macnab’s organization.

Place in the Novel’s Wider History

The organization is not presented through a sustained account of its structure or program. Instead, it enters through Macnab’s biography, in a catalogue of people associated with European fascism and wartime collaboration who found refuge in Spain. That placement makes the organization’s relevance narrative and historical: its member’s escape and prolonged Spanish residence contribute to the novel’s picture of how fascist affiliations persisted beyond the war and crossed national boundaries.