The oldest, sanest order in the Western world was changing. Britons who had voted for the change realized that it was upon them when last week they pondered a pub-shaking fact: they had a Five-Year Plan.
In the new House of Commons, the new Labor Government proposed a five-year extension of the tight wartime controls on labor, prices, transport, building. Tories Gad-sirred that such stuff would leave Parliament "nothing more than a Reichstag." At home recovering from a sore throat, Winston Churchill croaked of "drastic departures from our . . . way of life. . . ." The bright beacon on...