“…Nothing in this pamphlet should be taken as committing either the Social Security League as a whole nor any group or individual among its membership. October 1st, 1944. 15X/2/453/3…”

“…Sir William Beveridge recommended that this become a social service and no longer dependent on individual litigation. The Government agree. They will absolve the individual workman from the difficulty of proving that his injury really did arise out of and in the course of his employment. …”

“…After that it would gradually dwindle until it catered only for the the few persons who, for an assortment of individual reasons, fell through the net. The Government scheme however keeps assistance permanently in the scheme. …”

“…Secondly, this Committee took evidence from 127 individuals and organisations, as well as from Government Departments, so that the Report was solidly based on current knowledge and expert opinion. …”

“…Ideally the Ministry of Labour should be so good that, given the basic essential of a high national level of unemployment, no individual would be involuntarily out of work for more than a few weeks — certainly never long enough to let his morale run down and his energy diminish. …”