Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio from London, Harold J. Laski, British Labor's left-wing philosopher, told the rally: "Our peoples didn't make the immense sacrifices of this war to perpetuate either a tyranny like that of Franco, or an unedifying mythology like a Vatican-sponsored King of Spain trying hastily to learn the vocabulary of the Four Freedoms while making it painfully evident that he finds no meaning in the words...
...Labor Government had been in power little more than a month when last week that wayward wraith, the western bloc, in the guise of an entente of western Europe's socialist governments, began to clank familiarly through the international corridors. Its promoter was Professor Harold J. Laski (TIME...
...Copenhagen, the Danish Social Democrats' first postliberation congress drew socialist premiers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, socialist representatives from Belgium, Holland, France. Professor Laski, who has been skimming, swallow-like, from one European socialist conference to another, was also irresistibly attracted...
...theme song of the conference was: "Scandinavians, get together." Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship. Laski too was stirred. Hailing the advance of socialism in Britain, France, Belgium and Scandinavia, he cried: -"All of us stand side by side...
PROFESSOR HAROLD J. LASKI-"What precisely is Mr. Laski's authority with regard to all the statements he is making about our foreign policy, and do his statements involve the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? We know Mr. Laski as chairman of the Labor Party Executive [Committee] which has the right to describe their own party as they wish to do. But this is a very important body. I have been told that it has the power to summon Ministers before it. Evidently Mr. Laski has great power and evidently he is keen to assert it. ... Broadly speaking...