GREAT BRITAIN: The Legislators

For Labor's Ministers and their staffs the parliamentary recess had been no holiday. Now the Attlee Government was ready for the new session this week with a staggering array of bills, the first of many on Britain's course toward limited socialism. Items:

¶Bills to extend some of Britain's most vital (and most onerous) wartime controls. For weary Britons, the end of weariness was not yet.

¶ The Nationalization of the Bank of England Bill. The "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" was certain to be taken over by the state; the only question was how...

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