Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shades, No Smoking. He brought Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to Smith, ardently defended Sacco and Vanzetti. In a notable free speech fight in 1926, he stuck by faculty member Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, who was under fire for writing a book which absolved Germany of a good portion of World War I guilt and spread the blame over the other powers. Said Neilson in 1927: "The question . . . has always seemed to me to be not 'Are [Professor X's] views correct?' but 'Can the college afford to suppress him or his views at the cost...
...Harold Laski, British Labor's international problem child, got hit by another spitball, but went right on reciting. Conservative M.P. Cyril Osborne urged Parliament to send beefy Ernest Bevin to the U.S. to offset waspish Laski's influence. Declared Osborne: let the Government "keep some of their wandering minstrels from the London School of Economics at home." Minstrel Laski's proposal of the week: let the U.S. relax international tension right now by destroying its atomic bomb stockpile...
Nenni's "true Socialists" did not include the Communists, but he hopefully promised limited tactical cooperation with them. Labor's Laski hastily agreed in a press statement. But Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips rejected the Communists' twelfth plea for affiliation. Said he: "The gulf between us has not been narrowed...
...Paris, right-wing Socialist bigwigs sputtered that Nenni, "like Harold Laski," talked too much. Socialists would not form a Fifth International, they claimed: at most they would revive the moribund Second International. They charged Nenni with trying to deliver Socialism to the Communist ogre. When reminded that in London Nenni had spoken out against a merger with the Communists, they snapped: "That was on an odd day of the month. On even days he's for [it]." Declared a like-minded right-wing socialist in New York: "This mountain will give birth to a little left-wing mouse...
...Frida Laski, wife of arch-Socialist Harold, agreed with people who thought he ought to be out of the Labor Party chairmanship. Said she: "It's about time we had a happy home life free from politics." But she wanted him at least to run for re-election to the executive committee at next spring's Party Congress, for if he didn't "then Lord Beaverbrook would be very happy, and I don't want that to happen...