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...AMERICAN DEMOCRACY (785 pp.)-Harold J. Laski-Viking...
Britain's bookish radical, Harold J. (for Joseph) Laski has spent most of his 54 years looking at the world through pink spectacles. Born in Manchester of Hungarian immigrant parents, he looks like a young Henry Van Dyke but often talks like poor Poll with elephantiasis...
Like many left-wingers, Laski has taken varying attitudes toward the U.S.S.R., ranging from piously articulate fellow-traveling to skeptical hostility (his Secret Battalion, published in 1946, was a blistering attack on the British Communist Party). But he has never for a moment lost his faith in the idea of a planned society nor his energy in tub-thumping for one. Much of his writing, like many of his public utterances, has been neat propaganda, smartly concocted and adroitly delivered. But periodically he has written studies in which his intelligence and historical erudition have loomed much larger than his slicker...
Russia, said Laski, is "aware that it can't fight a major war with any degree of success. . . . The Russians are afraid of you and they will go as far as they can until you tell them to stop." But, he added, "the gentlemen in the Kremlin-and some of them are not gentlemen-rather naturally take the view that your policy in international affairs is semi-paralyzed until November. They're gathering rosebuds while they...
...Wrote Author Laski in 1944: "No one is now entitled to doubt that there is developing in the Soviet Union those qualities of mind and heart which gave to the Greek city-state at its best the capacity to raise the moral stature of its citizens...