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...been sent; it was to them that he plugged away at his theme of a democratic post-war world. He had long talks with Winston Churchill; met Anthony Eden several times a week; consulted labor leader Ernest Bevin; became fast friends with such Britons as Author-Professor Harold J. Laski, Sir Stafford Cripps, Press Lords Camrose and Kemsley, the WVS's Dowager Marchioness of Reading, one of England's most influential women...
...conclusion, he said that "I believe with Harold Laski, that, because of sheer economic pressure, socialism is coming in Britain and it is my hope that some day there will be an international-socialist order...
...Harvard alumni Roger Baldwin '05 of the Civil Liberties League, and Sumner Welles '13. From education, Charles Beard and Robert Morss Lovett, neither of whom has ever received such an award because they have insisted too strongly on what they felt was truth. From abroad John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, or Ernest Bevin, of whom with their brilliance, achievement, and human leadership would be far worthier than last year's choice of Tory Lord Halifax. From America young Walter Reuther, who has pointed a new path in labor-capital relations, or the more established leaders of labor such as David...
Also desired by the Library are W. Ivor Jennings, "Parliament"; Harold J. Laski, "Parliamentary Government in England"; A. W. Peach, editor, "Selections from Thomas Paine"; A. S. Ronur, "Man and Vertebrates"; Vernon Parkington, "Main Currents in American Literature"; Louis Hacker, "Triumph of American Capitalism"; Anne Radcliffe, "Mysteries of Udolphe"; F. M. Stenton, "First Century of English Feudalism"; James F. Cooper, "Home as Found...
Jock McGovern, a former plumber who represents Clydeside ship workers of Glasgow, is as unreconstructed a Socialist as ever caused conservatives to wince at his bad manners. He is no scholar-&-gentleman leftist like Economist Harold Laski, who recently, and politely, observed: ". . . we must begin a revolution by consent now or we shall get a revolution by violence after the war." But Jock McGovern would endorse this statement with the addition of a little invective...