BEVERIDGE REPORT

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1943, Page 6

BEVERIDGE REPORT

APPEAL .TO GOVERNMENT

LONDON, March 4. An appeal to the British Government to implement his social security plan was macle by Sir William Beveridge in a speech. “The Government according to its spokesmen, thinks it has accepted my report in principle, subject only to caution about finance,” he said. “It has not quite done that, but, I believe it would like to accept it. I appeal to the Government to take its courage and imagination in both hands, and realise that it is ridiculous | to suppose that 20 years after the war we will be very much poorer i than we were before the war.” | Sir William Beveridge pointed out, that he was asked to report on social ; insurance and allied services. He was not asked to design a whole suit, but j only the trousers. “I have designed the trousers, and we had better put them on immediately, so that we can with a free mind also see about the coat and other parts of the reconstruction Wardrobe. It would have been possible by a small change in the Government’s attitude in recent debates to settle this problem by acclamation.”