Beveridge Report (copy letter)
1943-01-20 1943 1940s 2 pages 20th January, 1943. Private & Personal. Dear Mr. Gresham Cooke, Your letter of 12th inst. with your Notes on the "Beveridge" Report duly reached me, and if I have delayed acknowledging it, it is because I have been devoting my time to prepa...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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20 January 1943
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1943
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20th January, 1943. Private & Personal. Dear Mr. Gresham Cooke, Your letter of 12th inst. with your Notes on the "Beveridge" Report duly reached me, and if I have delayed acknowledging it, it is because I have been devoting my time to preparing and presenting to the appropriate Committees of the Confederation my own views on the "Beveridge" Report. It seemed to me that the publicity given to this Report - in which Sir William himself has played no small part - has been so one-sided that I should present to the Confederation Committees the other side of the case. That I have now done, and if, when you are in London some day you would care to come and see it, I think it would be of more than ordinary interest to you. Having tackled the matter from that angle, I am now engaged in drafting a Report which will come before the Council of the Confederation on 29th inst. and upon which the Council of the Confederation will decide what action it is going to take. That Report will, I hope, be in Sir Walter Benton Jones' hands by 24th or 25th inst. As to what the Council of the Confederation will decide to do, I do not know, but I think that with the current of approval of the "Beveridge" Report running so strongly as a result of almost unparalleled propaganda, anything we say has to be calmly and deliberately conceived to avoid the impression that it is again the employers of the country who are standing in the way of what is popularly described by the catchword of "social security" or the "abolition of want," when, in fact, it is the redistribution of incomes to pay benefits to those who never have been in want with all that that means in handicapping the reserves and enterprise of industry and when, in truth, the only real security is the providing of employment itself. Having said that, I would just like you to know that I was personally much encouraged by your penetrating analysis of the "Beveridge" Report and its basic principles. It is these basic principles which are so apt to be forgotten when benefits are offered as a right without corresponding obligations. I do not know, of course, how the revised Draft I am/
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