POST-WAR PROBLEMS
TO BE STUDIED IN AMERICA Rec. 12.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. A house committee of the House of Representatives to gather information on the post-war conversion of industry, unemployment, public works, new fields enterprise, and foreign trade, and also to examine the Federal statutes to discover which are likely to retard and which are likely to aid post-war reconstruction, will shortly be appointed, said the Speaker, Mr. Sam Rayburn, when addressing the Mayors' Conference in Chicago. Mr. Rayburn warned that "if we bungle the post-war task there will be renewed demands for centralised government. If we allow the depression spectre to arise again, say, five years or ten years hence, people will look for centralised leadership. The question is: Will they be fortunate enough to find' another so great, so demo-cratically-minded as President Roosevelt to lead them through the crisis, or will a man on a horse, the man with an iron fist, seize control?" Mr. Rayburn said the best way was to perfect voluntary mobilisation of effort, gather essential information, and make it available to all concerned, thereby ensuring an unparalleled period of prosperity and happiness.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1944, Page 4
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