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...Margaret Cole, Honorary Secretary of the British Fabian Society, extolled the contributions of her organization to British social history before a packed Cabot Hall living room last night...
...present system of social security and nationalization in England are "the legacy of the Fabian society," the author and lecturer told her audience. She foresees nationalization of insurance as the next Fabian suggestion to be incorporated by the Labor Government...
...Margaret Cole, distinguished British author, lecturer, and authority on the Fabian Society and the Labor party, will speak on "The Role of Fabianism in British Social History" at 8:30 p.m. Monday night, October 10, in the Cabot Hall Living Room by request of Miss Helen Maud Cam Zemurray-Stone Radcliffe Professor of History...
...Konni Zilliacus had been zooming and buzzing around the Labor government's left flank like a gnat harassing an elephant. Several times, the great beast had flapped its ears in protest. Last week it hauled off with its trunk and struck. Konni Zilliacus, M.P. for Gateshead, longtime Fabian and fellow traveler, was formally read out of the Labor Party...
Long years before the Labor Government came to power, London's County Council was the rock of Fabian Socialism in Britain. In the capital's tough, cockney-flavored municipal government, Oxford-accented Fabians had fought and won their first battles. Labor's political machine, reaching into all of London's slums, docks and factory districts, boosted to power such Socialists as Clement Attlee, Herbert Morrison, and Lewis Silkin. For 15 years, no matter who controlled the majorities in Parliament, the Labor Party controlled the London County Council...