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Said Minister without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood: "Disunity, doubt and disillusionment are growing within the Reich...
...return it has every intention of blueprinting the peace. Its leaders, thanks to the war emergency, have vastly increased their political power. Therefore, the avowed aims and purposes of the British Labor Party, collected from recent statements and resolutions, make interesting reading. There are pronouncements by Laborites Arthur Greenwood, Herbert Morrison (Minister of Home Security), Philip Noel Baker, Clement Attlee, Hugh Dalton, Leonard Woolf and Harold Laski...
Soon after he was appointed chairman of what is virtually a Ministry of Postwar Reconstruction last month, Laborite Arthur Greenwood broadcast his ideas as follows: "Britain, after the war, will not tolerate in her midst the tragic spectacle of abject poverty, nor the existence of . .. unemployment...
...apply the brakes to this type of rush by British businessmen, Winston Churchill has named Laborite Arthur Greenwood, his Minister Without Portfolio, as Chief of the Executive for Reconstruction, to work up broad schemes for a more beautiful post-war Britain. Today 99% of all new building operations is under direct Government control and private building can be done only under a special license. This does not apply to repairs and patching up of Blitzed houses, which is fast be coming a nationwide non-union job in which everybody has a hand...
...defense setup by giving it a two-man head (see p. 21), Winston Churchill last week again revised Britain's setup. He made Labor Minister Ernest Bevin Chief of Production Executive, Supply Minister Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Chief of Import Executive, Minister Without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood, whose so-called Production Council has proved inadequate, he made Chief of [postwar] Reconstruction Executive. In Britain, as in the U. S., these changes were not wholly satisfying. Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is still no supreme high command of economic and industrial policy...