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Nothing that the war had done to England was so important. Last week, with no more warning than a gliding buzz-bomb, the Conservative Government launched its "prosperity and happiness program," Lord Woolton's plan for cradle-to-grave social security. Famed Sir William Beveridge, stepfather of the plan, gave it his blessing, even thought it an improvement on his own. To most people it looked like "socialism in our time...
...Poverty. Amiable, efficient Lord Woolton, Britain's Conservative Reconstruction Minister, called the plan "a declaration of war against poverty." Based on the Beveridge Plan, but costing slightly less (approximately $2,600,000,000 for the first year against the Beveridge Plan's $2,788,000,000, it is the product of several ministries, many minds. It is all-embracing (it provides for every man, woman & child), and cooperative (it is financed by compulsory contributions from all who are able to pay). Its benefits begin at birth with a maternity allowance, end at death with a grant. General benefits...
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...
...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...