Word: laski
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...expectation aroused by Mr. Laski's provocative title is more than fulfilled by the first of this interesting group of essays. The gentleman stigmatized is the gentleman who has ruled England for the past two centuries; he is a way of life whose manifestations in politics and international affairs have at least in part been responsible for the present war. Mr. Laski's strictures against him, and his conviction that the type must inevitably go, are tempered by a certain ironical fondness which is to be explained in terms of the fact that the essay was written...
...well as the title essay, show the author's brilliant, liberal mind attacking a wide variety of problems. In only one case--the "Nationalism" speech--has he found it necessary to make some additions as of 1939. And the additions only point out what is already clear--Mr. Laski's conclusion that a federation of nations is essential is even more true in 1939 than...
...Catlin - Whittlesey House ($5). A little background in these matters being widely desirable, Catlin's history is commendably addressed to laymen, gives in critical outline the best political thinking from Plato to Bertrand Russell, discovers a Grand Tradition from which fanaticism and specifically Hegelianism are excluded. Contemporaries Harold Laski and John Strachey, to say nothing of Adolf Hitler, do not come off so well under the author's analysis...
...another feature of the book, Harold J. Laski, author and professor of Economics at London University, wrote a biographical sketch also lauding the prominent judge...
...discussing Frankfurter's policies, Laski stated, "By the general public, Mr. Justice Frankfurter is regarded as likely to be a radical influence on the Supreme Court. It is perhaps permissible to suggest that this is a wrong approach to his philosophy of the judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber...