Word: woolton
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About a quarter of London will have to be rebuilt after the war. Bombs (Blitz I) and robombs (Blitz II) have left few streets in the world's largest city without ruins or cratered lots, few buildings undamaged. Last week Reconstruction Minister Lord Woolton totted up the damage...
Britain's Minister of Reconstruction, Lord Woolton, said: "For half a century or more, we spent [i.e., invested] our savings overseas. Now we have sold almost all we had . . . and have incurred overseas debts double the amount of our previous investments...
Paper by Lord Woolton, Minister of Reconstruction, it may well turn out to be a historic document, not only for the English, but for Americans. The reason: Winston Churchill's Government became the first major democratic government to shoulder a broad, new, postwar governmental responsibility: the prevention of depressions...
Soon the U.S., along with other governments, will almost certainly have to make similar undertakings. But the U.S. will be handicapped by Washington's late start. For the Woolton paper is the result of more than two and a half years' exacting work. During that time, the New Deal has done little. Innumerable Congressional and administrative-bureau "postwar-planning" committees are making snail's progress in a dozen different directions, without policy guidance from...
...Lord Woolton made it clear that, even if his proposals are accepted, the British Government knows that it is pioneering, that it expects to meet difficulties and adopt new techniques...