GREAT BRITAIN: New Life

Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, 62, died suddenly last week. He was five feet high, ruddily Pickwickian in appearance, utterly efficient, unoriginal and orthodox. Wrote the London Economist: "Starting at the Exchequer in 1940 from the premise of sound and conventional budgeting, Sir Kingsley Wood was the Chancellor in office when this country crossed into the land of promise where the nation's real resources and not its money became the basis of public economics. . . ." Mourned Winston Churchill: "We shall not easily fill the gap.. . ."

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