MR BEVIN OUTLINES POLICY
ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION FIRST AIM LONDON, August 20 The British Government regarded world economic reconstruction as the primary objective of its foreign policy, said the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, in the foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons. He said the war had ended only just in time. We were on the eve of a great world food crisis. "We cannot stop the decline this winter, but there are hopes that the 1946 harvest will check the decline," he stated. "Next year will be vital. It will be hard to call on Britons after six years of war for more, but peace with understanding, with Britain playing a proper role as leader in the social and economic field, is a prize worth winning. "In a world stunned and only just beginning to awaken from the stupefying effects of war," he added, "the great thing is attention to economic reconstruction and to work hard to get the people resettled and earning their own living."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25287, 22 August 1945, Page 7
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