Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cotton, chemicals and factory machines accounted for most of Britain's dollar imports in 1948; there were hardly any food purchases other than cheese...
...Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway...
...Socialist Britain was a "fool's purgatory," millions of Britons were the fools. They liked it-at least they liked it better than what they thought the Tories would give them. As the anti-Socialist Economist recently said: "Instead of standing forth as the champions of wise and vigorous government [the Tories] have allowed themselves, by talking in generalities about abstract principles such as 'freedom' and 'enterprise,' to be represented as the captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British...
...Britain alone, but throughout the world, the welfare state was on the rise. Even the U.S., which had a more or less undeserved reputation as the last great citadel of individual independence, was entering a new phase of its long debate over socialized services. One of the warmest issues in the U.S. at the moment was socialized medicine...
Long Way from Locke. A few weeks before Churchill's blast, Britain's new socialized medicine scheme had survived its first major test in the House of Commons. Its champion, Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, held arrogant and undisputed possession of the field when Churchill walked out of the House (TIME, Feb. 28). This did not prove that Britain's socialized medicine plan was good medicine or good social organization. But the debate's results did prove that socialized medicine was what the British voters wanted...