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March 23, 2012

March 23, 1907

Douglas Jay (March 23, 1907 to March 6, 1996) was a British writer and a Labour politician. He was at Oxford. Jay, one of "the first generation of Keynesian socialists," was a journalist in the 30s for The Times and The Economist.

His first wife was Peggy, a journalist, who went to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her father, Maxwell Garnett was secretary to the League of Nations Union. Jay wrote The Socialist Case, (1937). After the war he wrote The Road to Recovery‎, (1948) and was Labour MP for North Battersea.

Douglas Jay, a friend of Isaiah Berlin's, is said to have liked cats, but not dogs. He was made a peer in 1987.

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