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Show BRITISH PEOPLE PLAN FOR POST-WAR PERIOD Those who have the idea that the British people are extremely conservative and that the empire belongs to a few aristocrats know little or nothing about what has happened in England, Scotland, Ulster and Wales. Long before the United States assumed any obligation whatever, in regards to the social security of its people, the British had a far-reaching far-reaching program of benefits. Looking ahead the government is now studying a report, designed to relieve the British people of want in the post-war world. Sir William Beveridge, one of the world's leading authorities on social insurances, says that unemployment unem-ployment can be abolished and he asserts that, twice in his life, it has been abolished in England, citing cit-ing the World War and the years of the present conflict. It is somewhat paradoxical that nations, engaged in all-out war, involving in-volving destruction on a mad scale, can spend money without limits but, when peace comes, must revert to silly theories that restrict governmental activity to incompetence. |