ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has deliberately not devoted space to smugly lauding the virtues of New Statesmanship, which seems little more than a euphemism for middle-class paternalism. The New Statesman had emerged from the First World War an independent Labour weekly, with a readership profile sharply different from those of the Labour Leader and the Independent Labour Party (ILPs) regional papers. Appointment to the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) brought G. D. H. Cole into regular contact with Ernest Bevin, a connection maintained through mutual involvement in the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda (SSIP) and New Fabian Research Bureau (NFRB). In the opinion of just about everybody other than Clifford Sharp, the New Statesman was pro-Labour. Clifford Sharp's growing admiration for Hitler had culminated in the recent establishment of the violently anti-Semitic National Workers Movement.
