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George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and Quintus Fabius Maximus were born so long ago that they were not able to get to the meeting. But hundreds of other Fabians crowded solemnly into Albert...
...delayed the celebration. The postponement was in character; Fabius Cunctator (The Delayer) had worn out Hannibal in the Second Punic War* by what Livy called "masterly inactivity." The earnest young men & women of the 1880s who believed that socialism (not the Marxist brand) would come with what Webb called the "inevitability of gradualness" took Fabius as their exemplar. They considered violent revolution unnecessary, believed their Utopia could be achieved by "permeating" existing institutions...
...sound foundations for a nation's advancing freedom and social responsibility. Attlee gave an account of the Society's history that might have been brighter. He omitted, for instance, Shaw's account of the dear, dead days when he, H. G. Wells, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and other veterans lived in an "eternal political shop . . . mornings of dogged writing, all in our separate rooms; our ravenous plain meals . . . Beatrice throwing away her pen and hurling herself on her husband in a shower of caresses which lasted until the passion for work resumed its sway." In 1896, wrote...
...Hotel bombing, had disqualified himself with a vicious letter to division commanders, in which he urged a boycott of Jewish merchants because that would "be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes...." His recall encouraged moderate Zionist leaders, but extremists were unappeased. They provided the occasion for Webb's outburst, exploding three bombs in rapid succession near troop roadblocks and injuring eleven Tommies, one civilian...
...Jones called the terrorist attacks "abominations and cold-blooded outrages," warned that they would "postpone the day when a just and lasting settlement can be reached." Creech Jones said that Palestine authorities were "very alive" to the complexities of the problem. He did not say whether he meant Colonel Webb...