GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the New Society

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...

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