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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...
...will be big and difficult. To fill it Churchill named popular Lord Woolton, Minister of Food since April 1940. Woolton had proved himself an adroit administrator, a skillful user of press, radio, cinema to keep the public informed. Born Frederick James Marquis in Manchester 60 years ago, Lord Woolton is a onetime Liverpool settlement worker who turned to merchandising, became chairman of Lewis's Ltd. (department stores). As a Minister he had achieved the seemingly impossible, made people like him while he tampered with their eating habits...
...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
Voices from England. In London, Food Secretary Lord Woolton said that ships were at sea bearing "thousands of tons of cereals" to India. But his words did not allay a nation's conscience. Said the liberal New Statesman and Nation: "The British Raj has failed in a major test. ..." Observed the ultra-Tory Sunday Observer...