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...FABIAN OF THE YARD (208 pp.)-Rob-erf Fabian-British Book Cenfre...
Belloc held that "all political questions are ultimately theological." In the debate with the rationalists, he became chief Roman Catholic protagonist, wrote political novels as a counterblast to those of H. G. Wells, pamphlets at George Bernard Shaw and the Fabian Socialists. He converted G. K. Chesterton to the Roman Catholic Church, and a critic has described Shaw addressing the formidable Chesterton: "But there dawned a day?a terrible day for you?when Hilaire Belloc loomed into your life. Then indeed you were lost forever. He made you dignify your monstrosities with the name of Faith . . . he turned your pranks...
...hatred and "one in the eye for the boss." For the practiced old trade union chiefs of Transport House, who put up some 60% of Labor Party funds and speak for 85% of its membership, socialism is an alteration, not an abolition, of capitalism, an evolution steeped in the Fabian "inevitability of gradualness." From two general-election failures, trade unionists sense that Labor's medicine, heavily laced with Bevanism, is too strong for most Britons...
...Harvard Fabian Society was originally organized as the Harvard chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society in the first decade of the century. Prominent in the organization then were Walter Lippman '10, and John Reed '10, author of "Ten Days That Shook the World" and immortalized as one of the two Americans buried in the Kremlin...
Since the war, the activities of the Fabian Society have been quieter. This was emphasized when the organization officially became known as the Harvard Fabian Society in January...