Word: brailsford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest impossibilities." Watching the trial, New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny cabled "This correspondent confesses that the psychology of these prisoners, ardently condemning themselves, baffles...
PROPERTY OR PEACE - Henry Noel Brailsford-Covici, Friede...
...today's Bartholomew Fair, Socialism is still doing business at the old stand. By contrast with its fiercer-breathing rivals. Socialism has come to seem a much less frightening creed than oldsters used to think it. Even conservative quidnuncs, if they can bring themselves to read Author Brailsford's 329 big pages, will see that his doctrine is less fatal, more optimistic, than the present faiths of Rome. Berlin and Moscow. A sometimes brilliant and always lucid writer, Author Brailsford has given a masterful summation of the Socialist worldview...
...defeatist or delighter in destiny, Author Brailsford believes ''this is not one of those hopeless moments in the world's history . . . our age is poised precariously between order and chaos. . . ." Democracy is in retreat, but democracy as the world has known it has been a middle-class laissez-faire system whose results "curiously resemble a dictatorship of the owning class. ... It is rather a prize to be won than a possession to be defended." The root of economic disorder, says Author Brailsford. is the institution of property. A planned capitalism is impossible, "a contradiction in terms...
...Author Brailsford differs from the peerage of panaceatic prattlers in his levelheaded, often ironic detachment. Though he is a Briton, he can take a truly-international view of disarmament: ''It would be unfair to question the sincerity of the general wish to disarm one's neighbors." Though he takes off his hat to the Fascists with a left-handed gesture ("The efficacy of beating as a method of refuting adversaries ranks among the major political discoveries of our century'') he does not regard Hitler as one of the beasts foretold in the Book of Revelation...