Volume 9, Number 2 · August 3, 1967
End of the Line
By Noel Annan
The Diaries and Letters of Harold Nicolson: Volume II: The War Years 1939-1945
edited by Nigel Nicolson
Atheneum, 512 pp., $8.50
Harold Nicolson entered Parliament in 1935 as a National Labour candidate—one of the small and despised group who supported Ramsay MacDonald when he broke with the Labour Party and formed a 'National' Government at the time of the slump four years earlier. After MacDonald's death the group lost whatever meaning and influence it had ever possessed, and facing in 1944 the prospect of the General Election which would take place after the defeat of Germany, Nicolson asked himself what in fact he stood for in politics. 'I am an Asquithian Liberal,' he answered. We all know what an Asquithian Liberal was in the First World War. What was he in the Second?
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