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Nenni's "true Socialists" did not include the Communists, but he hopefully promised limited tactical cooperation with them. Labor's Laski hastily agreed in a press statement. But Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips rejected the Communists' twelfth plea for affiliation. Said he: "The gulf between us has not been narrowed...
Italy's Socialist chieftain Pietro Nenni junketed to Paris and London, consulted with Socialists Léon Blum and Harold J. Laski. In London last week, Nenni told the press what they had talked about. All the world's "true Socialists" would shortly be invited into a new International to provide a common political strategy. Its grand premiere...
...Paris, right-wing Socialist bigwigs sputtered that Nenni, "like Harold Laski," talked too much. Socialists would not form a Fifth International, they claimed: at most they would revive the moribund Second International. They charged Nenni with trying to deliver Socialism to the Communist ogre. When reminded that in London Nenni had spoken out against a merger with the Communists, they snapped: "That was on an odd day of the month. On even days he's for [it]." Declared a like-minded right-wing socialist in New York: "This mountain will give birth to a little left-wing mouse...
...Your piece [TIME, Dec. 17] on Laski's speech is inexcusable. Why the adjective "Little" Laski? You are evidently unaware of his writings when you say, "Harold Laski was troubled by no doubts." You don't have to tell us that his "challenge" was "arrogant"-just quote it and let us read it. And what do you mean that it rang "tinnily" [through the room] ? What would he have to say to make it ring "resonantly" or "decisively?" (And why do you make such a point of the fact that "no public vote anywhere has ever elected Harold...
...what do you mean, Reader Abel? That TIME should falsify Laski by doubling his weight...