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From 1933 Laski was ever more prolific as a popular journalist, and became increasingly active in numerous Left-wing organisations, as well as the Labour Party. He also urged unity of action with the Communist Party. He remained as much of an ‘intellectual’ as ever, quoting with approval Goethe’s aphorism: ‘action is easy, it is thought that is so difficult’.1 But he argued that intellectuals needed to have the courage to shun wealth and respectability and to speak the truth as they saw it. It was, he claimed, far easier to avoid doing so and to be accepted as someone with ‘sound’ views.’ Later he proclaimed:
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For a full discussion and references, see Michael Newman, ‘Democracy versus Dictatorship’, History Workshop Journal, 5, Spring 1978.
Lord Citrine, Men and Work (Hutchinson, 1964) pp. 294–300.
The Theory of an International Society’ in H. Laski, A. E. Zimmern et al., Problems of Peace (Allen and Unwin, 1932 ).
The Economic Foundations of the Peace’ in L. Woolf (ed.), The Intelligent Man’s Way to Prevent War (Gollancz, 1933 ).
To Leonard Woolf, 8 March 1934, in Noel-Baker papers, 2/18 Churchill College, Cambridge, quoted in A. J. Williams, Labour and Russia (Manchester University Press, 1989 ) p. 233.
Jose Harris, William Beveridge: A Biography, (Clarendon Press, 1977) p. 292 (hereafter Harris, Beveridge ).
Letter from Sir E. Graham-Little, Daily Telegraph, 14 July 1934.
To Holmes, 12 November 1932, II, p. 1416. (For a useful brief source on the period, see W. E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, Harper, 1963.)
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Newman, M. (1993). Freedom in Danger (1933–4). In: Harold Laski. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376847_8
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