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My point is that in a choice, say, between the average police magistrate and Mr Robert Morss Lovett, I am not prepared to accept the former’s opinion of what I may be safely left to read.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “My point is that in a choice, say, between the average police magistrate and Mr Robert Morss Lovett, I am not prepared…”
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Laski emphasizes that he trusts literary figures over magistrates in determining what is safe to read.
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