Hugh Gaitskell to Give Godkin Lectures in '57

Hugh T.N. Gaitskell, leader of Britain's Labor Party, will deliver the Godkin Lectures here next year, Edward M. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration announced yesterday.

Gaitskell succeeded Clement Attlee as opposition leader in December, by defeating Aneurin Bevan and former deputy leader Herbert Morrison.

Not a Marxist

"I want to see a society of equal men and women. I want everyone to have the opportunity of developing his personality to the full; I want fellowship and fraternity and I want to see these things achieved by democracy... These to me are Socialist ideas. Nationalization to me is a means, not an end," Gaitskell said in stating his fundamental views. He does not, however, think in Marxist terms and has demanded the expulsion of Communists from leadership.

Gaitskell graduated from New College, Oxford, where he took first class honors in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He then served as head of the Department of Political Economy, University College, London, and as a reader in Political Economy at the University of London.

Wins Parliament Seat

An unsuccessful attempt to gain a seat in Parliament opened his political career in 1935. When World War II began he entered the Board of Trade under Hugh Dalton and rationed coal and regulated prices. At the end of the war in spite of a heart attack which prevented him from campaigning he was elected to Parliament by 10,000 votes.

Two years after entering Commons he received the post of Minister of Fuel and Power, responsible for the nationalization of the coal mines. In 1950 he became Minister for Economic Affairs and his first budget drastically slashed the excess expenses of the welfare state. The re-