SOCIAL SECURITY: Thirty Years Later

In the U.S. last week for talks with U.S. postwar planners was England's pink-cheeked, birdlike Sir William Beveridge, with his bride. The author of Britain's famed proposal for "cradle to grave" security through compulsory insurance kept his arrival secret for two days, finally emerged at a press conference in the sumptuous offices of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Did Sir William care to discuss the proposal for U.S. postwar relief and employment offered by the National Resources Planning Board (TIME, March 22)—a document sometimes referred to as the American Beveridge Plan? He did:

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