Word: spendthriftness
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...fight," Duff had said, "is between high-button-shoe reactionaries and the advocates of progressive government." Grundyism, trumpeted Duff, meant "government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public." Grundymen retorted bitterly that Duff was a "me-too" spendthrift, viewed with alarm the millions he had added to the state's budget for welfare services, pointed out that Harry Truman himself had facetiously invited him to become a Democrat...
...TIME [Feb. 6] says: "By temperament, training and conviction, Clement Attlee was as far from being either a spendthrift or a dictator as any man could...
...combined pop. 411 million), he had also given to Britain a new way of life. Some of Attlee's followers called it Socialism; some called it "fair shares for all"; some called it the welfare state. Winston Churchill last week scornfully snarled out another name for it: "Queuetopia." Spendthrift's End? Whatever it was, the regime of queues and 40% taxes and womb-to-tomb security had come to judgment. On Feb. 23, Britain's voters would decide whether the Labor Party should have another five-year grant of power to continue and extend their experiment...
Speaking for the Tories, Winston Churchill last week brought in a partisan but elo quent indictment: "We now approach the crisis to which every spendthrift comes when he has used up everything he can lay his hands on, and everything he can beg or borrow, and must face the hard reckoning of facts . . . With the immense aid given us by the U.S. and our dominions from overseas, there was no reason why [Britain] should not have got back by now to solvency, security and independence...
These were harsh words to apply to the party headed by Clement Attlee, Deputy Prime Minister in Churchill's cabinet from 1942 to 1945. By temperament, training and conviction, Attlee was as far from being either a spendthrift or a dictator as any man could be. Yet his party's record in power and its program for the future had frightened many a less partisan Briton than Winston Churchill...