Word: kindersley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year this plan was a storm center in Parliament. Sir Robert Kindersley called it a barefaced bribe, said it smelled of totalitarianism. Laborites called it a disguised wage cut. Sir John Simon, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the patriotic motive was enough to make people save. But time proved him wrong. The Exchequer has partially adopted compulsory savings. Next autumn automatic wage deferments (on a complex sliding scale) will begin in Britain...