Harold Laski to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (13 December 1923), quoted in Holmes–Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski. I: 1916–1935, ed. Mark DeWolfe Howe (1953), p. 570
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I do wish Morley had lived a few months longer to see MacDonald Prime Minister. The old man had talked of it so eagerly and so often.
— Harold Laski on John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
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About Harold Laski
Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950.
About Harold Laski
Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950.
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