Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney Webb, Lord Passfield, 88, British economist, pioneer Fabian socialist, onetime Colonial Secretary (1929-31); in Liphook, England. He invented the most uninspiring political slogan of an era-"inevitability of gradualness"-and gave it to the Fabian Society, the gleam-in-the-eye which fathered the British Labor Party. His late wife Beatrice was coauthor with her husband of dozens of dogged, thorough, worthy, dull books and pamphlets. Their crowning work was the 1,174-page Soviet Communism: a New Civilization, which was the most detailed study of the Soviet Government in English, and which completely missed the point...
Clement Attlee, opening an educational center as a memorial to oldtime Fabian Socialist Beatrice Webb, hoped aloud that the place would not be full of radio and gramophone music. "One of the hardest things at this time," observed Britain's much-criticized Prime Minister, now deep in hard times, "is to get some quiet to speak...
Symbol of his party's present mood is penguin-shaped Katayama. "Middle of the road" were the words with which General MacArthur approved him; "Do not overdo it" is Katayama's favorite motto. He carries an umbrella, calls himself a Fabian and has as little as possible to do with Kyuichi Tokuda's Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese newsmen, eating a lunch of rice and radish from a plain aluminum lunchbox. After the day's deliberations, he drives himself home in a stubby midget...
George Bernard Shaw, explaining just what it was that he wanted the Fabian Society to do about making Henry A. Wallace the next U.S. president (TIME, Nov. 11): "What it can. Ventilate the proposition...
...Somebody" turned out to be Shaw, who married Miss Charlotte F. Payne-Townshend two years later. * Fabian Clement Attlee did his hero too much honor last week when, in a debate over whether the title "World War II" implied an inevitable World War III, Attlee told the House of Commons (most of whose members had known better since they were fifth formers): "As far as I know, there was a First and Second Punic War but not a third...