Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Laski, who is chairman of the Labor Party's National Executive Committee, and who masterminded the convocation of the conference, said coyly to the press as the delegates gathered: "If a Socialists' International is being planned wouldn't it be better to spring it on the delegates abruptly? If they are told in advance, they can think of all the difficulties...
...final session was six hours of quick-fire debate. The delegates decided that they would "not attempt a Socialist International before achieving collaboration with the Soviet Union." Laski tried to hide his disappointment with a magnanimous gesture: "I will rather resign the chairmanship of the British Labor Party than subscribe to an attempt to force a Socialist International in the face of the feeling here against...
Last fortnight, the frightening rumors crossed the Atlantic and chilled Professor Harold J. Laski, articulate British socialist (TIME, April 29). The U.S., cried Laski, possessed an atomic masterpiece so powerful that five of them could destroy the whole of the U.S. south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...Laski's wild statement was promptly and properly ridiculed in Washington by General Leslie R. Groves, military head of the Manhattan Project. But Groves did not say exactly how wrong the Professor had been, nor did he deny that a better bomb was cooking...
...Nagasaki bomb) by about the cube root of 100, or 4.6 times. An exercise in high school arithmetic proved that the new bomb would, under the best of circumstances, devastate something like 600 square miles. This was considerably less than twice the land area of New York City. Laski had been...