Word: laski
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...conference ended, Harold Laski, whose meddling speeches the past year have embarrassed the Labor Government, turned over the gavel as party chairman for next year to gaunt Philip Noel-Baker. "Others in the National Executive have looked upon me during this year with a combination of malevolence and charity unexampled in modern times," Laski joked. "Comrades, the skeleton now goes back to the cupboard...
...Harold Laski, who is chairman of the Labor Party's National Executive Committee, and who masterminded the convocation of the conference, said coyly to the press as the delegates gathered: "If a Socialists' International is being planned wouldn't it be better to spring it on the delegates abruptly? If they are told in advance, they can think of all the difficulties...
...final session was six hours of quick-fire debate. The delegates decided that they would "not attempt a Socialist International before achieving collaboration with the Soviet Union." Laski tried to hide his disappointment with a magnanimous gesture: "I will rather resign the chairmanship of the British Labor Party than subscribe to an attempt to force a Socialist International in the face of the feeling here against...
...Since Laski's term as chairman, a job that carries little influence, expires in three weeks, this statement was not regarded as sensational...
...Nagasaki bomb) by about the cube root of 100, or 4.6 times. An exercise in high school arithmetic proved that the new bomb would, under the best of circumstances, devastate something like 600 square miles. This was considerably less than twice the land area of New York City. Laski had been...