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...Norman describes himself as "a Socialist in the British Labour Party or the American New Deal sense of the term," admits that "Socialists differ . . as to what Socialism really is." Safely unSocialist is his view of the causes and cures of World War II. Let the People Know attempts to convince "the average busy citizen" that wars are not caused by capitalists, vested interests, empires, divisions into Haves and Havenots. Wars come, he believes, because ordinary men are mis-educated, prejudiced. They come, especially, because man is nationalistically minded...
...eloquent foreword British Laborite (pottery-maker and single taxer) Wedgwood also gives some shrewd reasons why he and Columbia University's Allan Nevins thought such an anthology worth compiling: "Though all my Labour colleagues regard Socialism as merely a stage on the road to that economic freedom which is our common goal, yet dependence on the State ever grows. A new master replaces the old masters. The mountain top is obscured, and those who have no vision tend to become willing cogs in the new bureaucratic machine. This machine . . . becomes a god whom it is blasphemy to criticize...
...BRITISH LABOUR'S RISE TO POWER- Carl F. Brand- Stanford ($3.50). BEVIN AND Co.-Patricia Strauss-Putnam...
...only not directly, but obliquely. And at this very minute, we must conduct our agitation against Kerensky . . . by demanding a most active, energetic and revolutionary war against Kornilov. The development of that war alone may put us in power." "That," adds Professor Laski, "is the strategy the Labour Party must consistently bear in mind...
...important section of Labour's Aims in War and Peace deals with the Soviet attack on Finland, which the Labor Party's official statement calls "bribery, deception, blackmail, aggression. . . ." In the Party's Peace Declaration the Russian attack is called "a shameless imitation of the Nazi technique in foreign policy." This is an important trend. Just as British appeasers were taken in by Hitler's anti-bolshevist policy, so most British labor leaders were taken in by Stalin's Popular Front tactic. That part of labor's self-deception, at least, is apparently over...