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REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION OF OUR TIME - Harold J. Laski-Viking...
Several other big-name voices will be heard, among them Edward R. Murrow, CBS London commentator, and Harold Laski, well-known British socialist and former instructor at Harvard. The unrehearsed discussion will open a series of Network exclusives in the Boston area, which are to include talks by Jan Masaryk, and other outstanding European statesmen on post-war problems...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell was no orthodox conservative. He was also damned for refusing-unlike Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler-to fire an outspoken German subject, Philosopher Hugo Munsterberg, from his faculty during World War I. He likewise refused to fire radical Harold J. Laski, who sided with the Boston police strikers in 1919. Lowell opposed the strikers, but defended Laski's academic freedom...
Leading the issue is Harold J. Laski's devastating criticism of the complacent "leave-it-until-we-win" school of thought. "The eminent English political scientist pulls no punches in charging that American and British Tories have a static conception of victory. Laski holds that the Nazi revolution can be permanently defeated only by stronger revolutionary idea, and that the promise of an economy of plenty is the only truly revolutionary concept which the United States has to offer. Plenty, however, is to Professor Laski manifestly impossible in a set of economic institutions best fitted to profit-yielding scarcity. Changing...
None of "Threshold's" other articles reaches the standard of Professor Laski's contribution. Next in rank stands Joseph P. Lash's "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," as estimate of the role of this war's veterans in future national politics. Lash concludes that soldiers' ideas are basically reflections of those of the nation as a whole, and that the only permanent influence of military service will be stronger attitudes of cooperation and respect for other peoples and races. Neither of these attitudes, however, belongs exclusively either to New Dealers or Old Guardsmen, and forecasting concrete political beliefs...