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Stepping off the Queen Elizabeth with his wife, Britain's Professor Harold Laski, a longtime apologist for Communism, sadly confessed: "I am deeply grieved by the Russian treatment of Czechoslovakia and by what little I know about the Russian treatment of Italy in next month's election...
...times, exiled six. Once, he was horsewhipped, burned, bayonetted and thrown bleeding on his cell floor. But when other prisoners marched by, he rose, put on his coat and stuck a flower in his buttonhole to show them he was still all right. He collects colonial paintings, admires Harold Laski, and says he is so healthy he can "eat bricks fried in automobile...
...making Phi Beta Kappa along with his classmate, Professor Gordon Allport. "The modern era with its closeness of instructor and student was beginning to supplant the old one, in which professors were in the main people apart." Another undoubtedly invigorating circumstance was the fact of having Harold Laski for a tutor for three years. "Since I was influenced strongly and simultaneously by Laski and by Irvin Babbitt, who with his theories of 'inner cheeks' you might call Conservative, a tug of war ensued in me. It ended with my becoming what some people have called a fence sitter...
...conversation between Joseph Stalin and Harold Laski, reported in London, was more illuminating. Stalin was worried about the U.S. election, said he, because he knew no Republicans. "You know Eric Johnston," reminded Laski. "Johnston," said Stalin, "doesn't count. He doesn't talk like a Republican...
...despite his dialectical footwork, the jury at week's end decided against Laski. This time the little professor would pay for the privilege of lecturing: the jury found he had not been libeled, the court assigned him the costs...