Word: laski
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...Laski, who is now professor of Political Science in the University of London, resigned from the University to take his present position after the board of Overseers had refused to take any action against him in spite of vehement protests on his attitude, allegedly favoring the striking policemen...
Asked after his talk on "The Present Outlook" to comment on the recent appointment of Granville Hicks as Counselor in American History, Laski said, "Eighteen years ago I would have had something to say; I have nothing...
Hicks has been branded a "Communist" and his appointment violently opposed by patriotic organizations and local political officials. The difference between the two cases lies in the fact that the Laski controversy was started by an issue of the Lampoon devoted to an attack on him, while no student group has come out against the Hicks appointment...
Describing the present British foreign policy as "an evil policy dedicated to the preservation of the decaying structure of European capitalism," Laski said that the new rearmament program will make any constructive social program impossible for more than a generation. The tax rate necessary to support both would be impossible, he said...
...choice is between the concentration camp and the battlefield," Laski declared, advocating a militant socialist policy, "and the time has come for Ideal Right to take Might unto itself...