Word: documented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited to visit the Business School and address faculty and student body during his American stay. Sir William, as chairman of the British Committee on Reconstruction Problems, is the author of the much discussed "Beveridge Report" on "Social Insurance and Allied Services", considered by many to be the outstanding document of this century in the field of social progress...
Quite a few things have happened, however, since the infallible Founders brought forth the perfect Constitution. They created a document that became a marvelous instrument for a Jeffersonian agrarian democracy, but that lost its quality as a testament under the stress of an expanding society. The Industrial Revolution necessitated a flexible interpretation of our political structure, a fact that the American public began to realize after prosperity remained around the corner. Individual initiative is possible only if individual despair is forestalled. And freedom for the individual to deal as an "equal" with a billion-dollar corporation has become an assininity...
...document, addressed to President Roosevelt, deplored the now prevalent policy of segregation of whites and Negroes in the nation's armed forces and declared the willingness of the signatories to serve in a mixed group. Prefacing the formal petition was a statement of the Society's desire to aid in the elimination of racial prejudice so that "the Negro people may with full faith in American democracy give all their effort to its defense...
...behalf of Winston Churchill's coalition Government, a special Cabinet Committee, including Laborites Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison, drew up the resolution for debate. This document recommended the Beveridge Plan as "a valuable aid in determining the lines on which developments and legislation should be pursued as part of the Government's policy of postwar reconstruction," but seemed to promise very little specific action...
Events began to document decisions. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt spoke and to the U.S. came the first military consequence of Casablanca-the French battleship Richelieu (see p. 24). Also there came solemn warnings...