...country, many of whom were to become the architects of Britain's own welfare state. As late as 1986, Stafford Cripps, our first postwar Chancellor of the...the British working class if Germany defeated us." l These are some of the antecedents of the present-day cult of centralized planning. Despite a bad...

...country, many of whom were to become the architects of Britain's own welfare state. As late as 1986. Stafford Cripps, our first postwar Chancellor of the...the British working class if Germany defeated us." ' These are some of the antecedents of the present-day cult of centralized planning. Despite a bad...

...Popular) Front and the National Executive's decision to dissociate itself from a speech in which Cripps 'did not believe it would be a bad thing for the British working class if Germany defeated us'. 37 It was at this time that Tribune was founded in order to put Cripps's point of view and to establish...

...but to deflect his aggression eastwards towards the Soviet Union. Cripps, who refused to accept that it 'would be a bad thing for the British working class if Germany defeated us',80 took this view. So did Harold Laski. who in March 1937 insisted that 'by its inherent nature...

...expressed a not dissimilar view in the correspondence columns of The Times: he could not agree that 'it would be a bad thing for the British working class if Germany defeated us'. Quoted in Ceadel, Semi-Detached Idealists, p. 342. 24. Cole, Europe, Russia and the Future, p. 16....