 It claimed membership as high as 50,000, and had the "Daily Mail" and "Daily Mirror" among its earliest (though short-lived) supporters.The "Mirror" piece was a guest article by "Daily Mail" owner Viscount Rothermere and an apparent one-off; despite these briefly warm words for the BUF, the paper was so vitriolic in its condemnation of European fascism that Nazi Germany added the paper's directors to a hit list in the event of a successful Operation Sea Lion.The "Mail" continued to support the BUF until the Olympia rally in June 1934.