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Uncle to Architect. At the peak of his popularity, in November 1943, Churchill suddenly switched Woolton to a newer, much tougher assignment-the unpalatable duty of persuading regulation-weary Britons that control must continue into their peacetime lives as well...
...postwar plans on paper, to coordinate the knotty problem of providing "food, work and homes." The first incumbent would have to be an architect in ideas-and a nonparty man, since no one knew what party would execute his program. For a soup-tasting, handshaking "kind uncle" like Woolton, this was a long leap into the unknown. Reluctantly, and only on Churchill's insistence, he accepted...
...Happiness and Prosperity." By June 1944 Woolton had produced the first governmental attempt to shoulder a major postwar responsibility: the prevention of depressions. His white paper proposing to stabilize employment was a bold assumption of government responsibility, although it did not espouse drastic economic means (TIME, June 5). Four months later, Woolton hit the headlines again, this time with his social-security plan, or, as he exuberantly dubbed it, his "prosperity and happiness program" (TIME, Oct. 9). Famed Sir William Beveridge, stepfather of the plan, gave it his blessing, even thought it an improvement on his own ''cradle...
...short order Woolton unrolled blueprints to provide higher expenditure on national health ($250 millions to $600 millions annually), family allowances, old-age pensions. A far-reaching Education Act, raising the school-leaving age from 14 to 16, will go into operation next month...
Practical Tories. Few of the plans are Woolton's own. Most are the distilled product of many minds, but Woolton channeled and coordinated the flow of ideas and gave them practical character. His self-confident experience drew the blueprints that might well prove to be Britain's footprints of the future...