GREAT BRITAIN: Dull Year of Hope

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Just a year ago this week Britain, in the full light of its most glorious military victory and the deepest anxiety over its political and economic future, handed its ancient seals and robes of office to men who promised to remake the nation. These men, from the mines and classrooms, shop-counters and docks, took power with eagerness, if not with full confidence that they could overcome the colossal obstacles their nation faced. How had they made out? Had the Labor Government helped or hurt Britain in one of its crucial years?...

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