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Died. Sidney Webb, Lord Passfield, 88, British economist, pioneer Fabian socialist, onetime Colonial Secretary (1929-31); in Liphook, England. He invented the most uninspiring political slogan of an era-"inevitability of gradualness"-and gave it to the Fabian Society, the gleam-in-the-eye which fathered the British Labor Party. His late wife Beatrice was coauthor with her husband of dozens of dogged, thorough, worthy, dull books and pamphlets. Their crowning work was the 1,174-page Soviet Communism: a New Civilization, which was the most detailed study of the Soviet Government in English, and which completely missed the point...
Died. Beatrice Potter Webb, 85, researcher, author, collaborator and wife of Socialist Sidney Webb (first Baron Passfield) ; in Liphook, Hants, England. Eighth of the nine daughters of Great Western Railway's onetime chairman, she began work as a reformer at 22, married the Fabian Society's Sidney Webb in 1892. When a Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public...
...cozy, book-filled house at Passfield Corner, Liphook, Hampshire live Sidney and Beatrice Webb, foremost economists of the British Labor Party. Their telephone number is "Passfield 6," telegraphic address "Passfield," and he is the First Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner. Last week the wrath of millions of Jews was loosed upon this spindly-shanked bee-bellied, goat-bearded little scholar. Reason: potent Lord Passfield in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the Colonies had, just restated the Palestinian policy of His Majesty's Government in these terms...
...table reader who is always claiming that "they don't give you your money's worth these days", at last may find balm in Gilead. A penny weekly is published in England with the title alone of THE FARHAM. HASLEMERE AND HINDHEAD HERALD, ALTON MAIL, BORDON AND LONGMOOR JOURNAL, LIPHOOK AND LISS NEWS AND NORTH SUSSEX ADVERTISER...
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