Richard Hilton (British Army officer)

Major-General Richard Hilton DSO, MC, DFC (18 January 1894 – 26 July 1978) was a British soldier, pilot, author, and failed far right politician who saw active service in both World wars.

[10] On 8 May 1945, VE Day, he led a party of seventeen Allied Military Commission Officers from Woodhaven, Fife, travelling by Sunderland and Catalina seaplanes to the Fornebu sea plane harbour near Oslo.

The title refers to "the power of international money-lending on the grand scale", which he believed was ubiquitous and tyrannical and would come to control a new world government.

A reviewer noted that Hilton's criterion for praise or blame was "does this individual, or nation, or tendency, conform to my idea of British Interests?

"[14] In 1962, Hilton founded a group called the True Tories, with a membership largely made up of old soldiers, which for the 1964 general election became the Patriotic Party.

[22] In his book Imperial Obituary (1968), Hilton surveyed events since 1945 and concluded that Britain's loss of great power status was the result of Communist infiltration spearheaded by the London School of Economics.