Dr. Harold Laski is having a rather chequered . time in the
United States. Arriving there early last month he was sent a "foreign-agent registration" form and asked to answer the various questions therein contained. A few days later this was withdrawn with apologies— which, I think, were called for. Then the use of a hall at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Harvard Law School Forum had arranged a lecture for him, was refused, Mayor Neville describing Dr. Laski as pro-Communist, anti-Catholic and anti-religious." The latter he may or may not be ; pro-Communist I should say he certainly is not—though there may be some excuse for misconception on the point. Before that, two lectures he was to have given at Los Angeles and Berkeley under the auspices of the University of California wero cancelled, for reasons which sound a little unconvincing. One of Dr. Laski's sponsors denounced the cancellation as an infringement of academic freedom." It is hard to disagree with him. At the same time I question whether Dr. Laski's transatlantic excursions promote Anglo-American amity very markedly.
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