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Eighteen years after a storm of controversy was aroused over his championship of the policemen in the Boston police strike of 1920 and the epithet "Bolshevik" was hurled at his head, Harold J. Laski, former lecturer and tutor in the department of History, Government and Economics, urged socialism as a means of preventing "a new and dark age," in a Ford Hall Forum lecture last night...
...appointment of Hicks calls to mind the few other radicals who have at one time been on the Faculty here, such as Max Lerner, now a professor at Williams, and Harold J. Laski, Professor of Political Economy at London University...
...Smith alumnae. He went to Northampton in 1917 from an English professorship at Harvard, where his tall German wife Elizabeth had been snubbed by War-minded faculty wives. Stanchly liberal, Dr. Neilson defended Sacco & Vanzetti, early advocated the recognition of Russia, invited such figures as Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to speak at Smith...
Ominous predictions of a major conflict which will embroil all nations of Europe in the near future and a strong plea for American cooperation in world affairs were made in an interview by Harold J. Laski, Professor of Political Science in the University of London...
Because the desire for peace is not universal today, Laski asserted, a world conference, led by President Roosevelt, would be useless and only a "heroic gesture." But, concerning the aloofness of the U. S. toward international affairs, he said, "I don't think America should wash its hands of responsibility as an effective impact in world problems...