Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's Socialist chieftain Pietro Nenni junketed to Paris and London, consulted with Socialists Léon Blum and Harold J. Laski. In London last week, Nenni told the press what they had talked about. All the world's "true Socialists" would shortly be invited into a new International to provide a common political strategy. Its grand premiere...
...Your piece [TIME, Dec. 17] on Laski's speech is inexcusable. Why the adjective "Little" Laski? You are evidently unaware of his writings when you say, "Harold Laski was troubled by no doubts." You don't have to tell us that his "challenge" was "arrogant"-just quote it and let us read it. And what do you mean that it rang "tinnily" [through the room] ? What would he have to say to make it ring "resonantly" or "decisively?" (And why do you make such a point of the fact that "no public vote anywhere has ever elected Harold...
...what do you mean, Reader Abel? That TIME should falsify Laski by doubling his weight...
...were self-imposed. In the democracies, pundits and plain people alike were simply afraid of using the four-letter words of contemporary politics. They refused to recognize or admit that the Left was indeed implacable-as it was in Russia or in the words of Britain's Harold Laski. Like the notion of sex in a previous generation, this thought was too dangerous, or too horrible. It was not so much that the democrats did not have a creed as that they found it difficult and embarrassing to reconcile their belief with their actions...
Many were dismayed to hear a top British leader denouncing compromise; but their gloom might be lightened by recalling that Laski does not lead the British Labor Party whose brow he inhabits. Although he has initiated many a successful leftist politician into the austere mysteries of "revolution by consent," as yet no public vote anywhere has ever elected Harold Laski to anything...