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Trained in conservatism and orthodoxy at the pre-Laski (1915-18) London School of Economics. Beltran came home to put the modern miracles of science to work on the family hacienda and to criticize governments from the pages of his daily La Prensa. His criticism of ex-Dictator Manuel Odria landed him in jail; his criticism of Odria's successor, President Manuel Prado, gave Prado an idea-he asked Beltran to help run the country...
...darling of the Kremlin; Harry F. Ward, Harvard '58; Felix Frankfurter, Harvard '06, who today is a Supreme Court Justice and who was dubbed by Teddy Roosevelt a Trotskyite red; Walter Lippmann '10; Roger N. Baldwin '05; Stuart Chase '10; Bertrand Russell, who taught his Fabianism at Harvard; Harold Laski and John Reed '10, studied there before they left for Moscow; and Lauchlin Currie, Allen Rosenberg, and Irving Schiller. The over-all foe for all these and so many others was capitalism and their individual enemies were men of business...
Bevan's mission, as he saw it then, was the "bullying of tradition." and his bullying took a form unknown to the owlish Harold Laski or those doctrinaire Socialists, the Webbs. Once, when Churchill roared in exasperation, "There was a parliamentary democracy in this country before the Labor Party was born," Bevan roared back: "There wasn't. There was a Parliament but not a democracy. Your people were here and mine were not." He had no patience with Labor's own indecisive Ramsay MacDonald, "treading his resolutionary path from conference to conference." He also had words...
...Shut Up. Beltrán learned the rules of conservative economics at the London School of Economics in 1915-18 -long before that institution went for Keynes and Laski. With a somewhat jaundiced eye a contemporary remembers him there at 20 as "a student of economic sciences, a member of an exclusive club of whisky drinkers, a dancer of the tango, a playboy, a reader of Adam Smith, and a wearer of the arrogant colored vests introduced by Wilde and Disraeli." When he got home, he turned the family hacienda into a lucrative model of science and mechanization, went back...
...T.U.C. representatives, who considered him a cheeky, young know-it-all. Next year he won a year's scholarship at Ruskin College at Oxford, where he sat at the feet of such eminents as G.D.H. Cole, Kenneth Robinson, and Margery Perham, and breathed the heady socialism of Harold Laski's Grammar of Politics. "I still have the greatest feelings for Oxford," Mboya says. "It was a very impressive year." And, he adds, it impressed Europeans back in Kenya. With new confidence, he went to the U.S. for a lecture tour, met Walter Reuther, George Meany and David Dubinsky...