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Without waiting for Prime Minister Attlee to return from Potsdam, Professor Harold J. Laski, Labor Party chairman, rushed into an arresting description of the Labor Government's aims. First the Bank of England will be nationalized (see BUSINESS). Then the Labor Government will tackle coal, power, steel and transport. Said Laski: "You can't plan economically without control of the central bank. A government which is not responsible for the operation of credit is not master in his own house...
...Cried Laski: "We've placed the people in power. . . . It's part of a world revolution ... the Fourth Estate, the common people, have opened the barriers which shut them out. . . . This is a day indeed to echo the famous sentence: 'We have nothing to lose but our chains and a world...
Socialism v. the Crown. Meanwhile, the Daily Express dug up a non-actionable Laski quote-this time on the Crown. In The Labor Party and the Constitution, Professor Laski wrote: "No one can doubt that the existence of the monarchy makes the realization of socialism a peculiarly difficult adventure...
...week's end Winston Churchill also gave tongue. Funereally he warned that the situation had been "darkened and complicated" by Laski, "a new figure" who had "leaped into notoriety" and presided over "dim conclaves from below" whose purpose was to supersede the House of Commons...
Well might Laski have recalled his own words to the Labor Party conference six months ago: "[I am] an example of that dangerous species in our movement who, so far as my knowledge goes, is rarely trusted and never eulogized-the species whose professional business is criticism and thought...