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Last fortnight, the frightening rumors crossed the Atlantic and chilled Professor Harold J. Laski, articulate British socialist (TIME, April 29). The U.S., cried Laski, possessed an atomic masterpiece so powerful that five of them could destroy the whole of the U.S. south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...Laski's wild statement was promptly and properly ridiculed in Washington by General Leslie R. Groves, military head of the Manhattan Project. But Groves did not say exactly how wrong the Professor had been, nor did he deny that a better bomb was cooking...
...Shades, No Smoking. He brought Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to Smith, ardently defended Sacco and Vanzetti. In a notable free speech fight in 1926, he stuck by faculty member Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, who was under fire for writing a book which absolved Germany of a good portion of World War I guilt and spread the blame over the other powers. Said Neilson in 1927: "The question . . . has always seemed to me to be not 'Are [Professor X's] views correct?' but 'Can the college afford to suppress him or his views at the cost...
...Harold Laski, British Labor's international problem child, got hit by another spitball, but went right on reciting. Conservative M.P. Cyril Osborne urged Parliament to send beefy Ernest Bevin to the U.S. to offset waspish Laski's influence. Declared Osborne: let the Government "keep some of their wandering minstrels from the London School of Economics at home." Minstrel Laski's proposal of the week: let the U.S. relax international tension right now by destroying its atomic bomb stockpile...
...Frida Laski, wife of arch-Socialist Harold, agreed with people who thought he ought to be out of the Labor Party chairmanship. Said she: "It's about time we had a happy home life free from politics." But she wanted him at least to run for re-election to the executive committee at next spring's Party Congress, for if he didn't "then Lord Beaverbrook would be very happy, and I don't want that to happen...