Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons last week could only hope that the Ghost of Christmas Present would provide a transformation for them, as it had for Scrooge. Instead, they chuckled grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this...
...troop census was still under discussion. Shawcross had taunted Russia's Molotov because of Russia's reluctance to include a census of home troops. Molotov taunted Sir Hartley with Britain's unwillingness to include information on armaments - all armaments. When the Russian was through, the Briton rushed to the rostrum. Cried he: "I accept the challenge! I think this is going to be a historic occasion...
Molotov, catching the full implications of the Briton's proposal, accepted "in principle...
Parliament had passed the National Health Service Bill, promising free, womb-to-tomb medical care for every Briton (TIME, April 1).* Now it was up to the doctors. Last week their answer came in: by a 23,110-to-18,972 vote, the British Medical Association said...
...Main provisions: the Government would take over all hospitals, help set up local health centers, train more physicians, spend some $600,000,000 a year to see that every Briton got complete medical and dental care, including drugs, eyeglasses, false teeth...