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Harold J. Laski: “I cannot recognize those implications as necessary to a proper view of national freedom.”

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I cannot recognize those implications as necessary to a proper view of national freedom.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski rejects the implications of national sovereignty as incompatible with a proper understanding of freedom.

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