ABSTRACT
Harold Laski made a short trip to the United States a few days after Roosevelt's inauguration, lectured at Amherst and Fordham, and visited Brandeis, Holmes, and Frankfurter. In mid-1933, Laski was preoccupied with the economic conference, for which he had high hopes if the United States took the leadership. In March 1933, Laski commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Marx's death, with an essay on "Marxism After Fifty Years" for Current History. A new feature of government during the New Deal years, in the extent to which it was utilized by the Roosevelt administration, was the delegation by Congress to executive agencies like the SEC and NLRB of broad discretionary powers to, in effect, write their own rules of operation. In the late spring of 1935, Laski returned to England from a visit to the United States, and delivered his remarks on the state of affairs to the press.
