ABSTRACT
In June 1945, Harold Laski reitered his theme in the New York Times Magazine that the world was in the midst of a revolution unlike anything since the Reformation, the American Revolution, the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, or the French Revolution. The victory of the Labor Party in England's postwar elections vindicated Laski's wartime predictions of just such an upsurge when the fighting had stopped. Political issues, Laski wrote, were inseparable from economic ones. A world government was not attainable "so long as the operating unit of political administration is the sovereign national state." The road opened by the American and French revolutions to individual opportunity had closed in America because of the end of the frontier. In February of 1948, Laski wrote Frankfurter of his plan to sail for the United States with Frida in March, and his hope to spend some time with the Frankfurters.
