POST-WAR PLANNING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 7

POST-WAR PLANNING

SIR W. BEVERIDGE ASSISTS

Sir William Beveridge, author of the British social security plan, is working on another dealing with the provision of maximum employment after the war. During a recent visit to the U.S.A. he explained that he was seeking data from Government, industrial, labour, and other sources, and hoped to obtain valuable information in America. Close mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the peoples of the British Commonwealth was particularly important. As democracies, they had a special common interest in, showing that democracies could add security t« freedom. Methods for organising industry and trade so as tp maintain productive employment need not be the same in all countries but must be related to one another. Action in regard to all post-war problems should be planned not merely on agreements between Governments but on widespread mutual understanding between the peoples for whom the Governments profess to speak. Private people might do something to bring that about. That, he said, was the reason that he and Lady Beveridge were in America —the liope of finding out by their own questions the views of people of many different standpoints in America on the main problems of the post-war world, and answering as far as they could questions about the views of British people on the same questions.