Word: fabian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offhand compliment: "[Mr. Cole's] book is good enough for the occasion and better; and nothing I have said about it must be taken as a disparagement. . . . He is, if anything, too modest, for the enormous success of socialism in Russia has been a triumph of Fabian tactics over revolutionary catastrophism. . . . The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics can now be quite properly called the Union of Soviet Fabian Socialist Republics...
U.S.F.S.R. In London 60 years ago, when he was red-bearded and in his 20s, George Bernard Shaw joined the newly founded Fabian Society.† It was a socialist group, ambitious to reconstruct "society in accordance with the highest moral possibilities." The Fabians rejected the Marxian doctrine that socialism must be preceded by revolution. They believed in "gradualism," holding that the socialist principle was partially embodied in most governments and capable of extension through existing political parties...
Last week, a bit nostalgically, with the old flashing wit, venerable G.B.S. relived those early days-and almost forgot that he was reviewing G. D. H. Cole's Fabian Socialism for the London Tribune...
Died. Beatrice Potter Webb, 85, researcher, author, collaborator and wife of Socialist Sidney Webb (first Baron Passfield) ; in Liphook, Hants, England. Eighth of the nine daughters of Great Western Railway's onetime chairman, she began work as a reformer at 22, married the Fabian Society's Sidney Webb in 1892. When a Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public...
Some writers, as representatives of groups whose influence is more than proportionate to their numbers, deserve attention whenever they publish noteworthy volumes. G. D. H. Cole, Chairman of the Fabian Society's Executive Committee and percennal Labor Candidate for Parliament from Oxford, is one of those significant authors. In this, the infest of his seventy old works Professor Cole directs a manifesto to his fellow Socialists, urging them to seize the lead the constructive planning for tomorrow's Europe...