tendency—combination not competition. Monopolies are interested in the producers—the consumers must be represented in the management of industry. Production must be subject to public criticism, workers must influence control. … Shareholders not to be dispensed with—state control increasingly but not ownership. … zic zlu zep zrc
Brief Diary of Life at Cheltenham.
When I arrived at the college I was directed to the hall by two girls who later were prominent adversaries in the commission. In the hall I was taken in tow by a fellow called John … from Glasgow Academy—a lovely accent … [and met] two Hertford Grammar School blokes … People generally were secondary school, and very friendly and quite as well educated as me—I don’t know why Mommy and Daddy spend £130 a year on me. zic zop zgk
In our free time we went about together, and with four girls from a Dorset secondary school. I took one of them to the flicks—’Thunder Rock’—a very fine film; she was very quiet and kind and quite good looking—but it took me four days to find that these still waters did not run deep as I had hoped; but she was quite a pleasant puddle, though I’d have liked to get to know more interesting people really—there were plenty. zic zfr zfm zop
The conference was predominantly socialist, a sprinkling of Christian preachers, one anarchist, one ardent federal unionist, very many atheists of various types. … We had a good discussion in the dormitory on atheism—in which I was honoured by being the first convincing atheist a bloke had ever met. zic zpn zrl
[On the train to Oxford, where my parents were staying] I got into a coach with two Oxford conference girls—both Socialists, one an Austrian refugee—rather nice. We talked politics and agreed on them—and were joined by a progressive woman who knew of the conferences. The other occupants were the latter’s daughter, doing medicine, and a woman reading a book on the USSR—a very progressive compartment! zic ztv zpn zop
