The Archive · 1940

BRITISH ECONOMICS

Aug. 9.

The complete frankness with which the members of the British Cabinet deal with the various phases of the present situation in addressing the House.of Commons has been demonstrated by Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, in initiating a' discussion on economic organizamn. It is, for example, highly significant when a Minister says "War of this kind and complexity, involving the whole population, calls for economic organization on a scale unknown in the past, and, Tam prepared 10 admit, not yet fully-zichieved in the present." Such an admission, confessing that further

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