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Then Desmond's 'Poverty Bay'
"I don't really know what to make of this guy. This is one of the more confusing figures I've dealt with and there's a lot of aspects of what he believed." "He was anti-Semitic, but also at the start, it doesn't seem like he was more anti-Semitic than anybody else," says writer Tom Charity. Desmond found work in a timber mill and on a series of small farms. The labor was backbreaking and the strain of working all day for someone else's profit clearly wore on his soul. 'If I ever had the chance to sweep away such a brutal system, it would not be neglected'