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11-28-2018, 12:15 PM
Defender of social democracy lived through Great Depression but didn’t start writing until later in life
Harry Leslie Smith, the political commentator and second world war veteran who survived the Great Depression, has died in Canada aged 95, his family said.
Smith, a regular contributor to the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/harry-leslie-smith), became an outspoken activist for the poor in his latter years, fighting for the preservation of social democracy.
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Harry Leslie Smith, the political commentator and second world war veteran who survived the Great Depression, has died in Canada aged 95, his family said.
Smith, a regular contributor to the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/harry-leslie-smith), became an outspoken activist for the poor in his latter years, fighting for the preservation of social democracy.
Continue reading... (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/28/harry-leslie-smith-dies-aged-95)