Word: liphook
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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...
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