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SUEZ SCENE
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He now begins to explain away what you'd think he might have known before
LONDON.
HAVE a confession to make-but it is nothing on the scale of the confession Lord Beveridge has just admitted to.
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Mine is that in the twentien I was student at the London School of Economics, cosy nursery of many a Socialist planner.
It was a time of rapid change in the value of money. And to me money
im- WILN of unusual portance. I was treasurer of the Students' Union. We depended for solvency on extracting a share of the fees from the school authorities, headed by Sir William Beveridge (as he then was).
At dimer parties and on other
money question was discussed,
occasions this
And Sir William, talking from A fund of ex- perience that went back to the early years of the century, would emphasise the importance to the com- munity of money that kept its value reasonably well from year to year.
the
For his pei subject wa well-being of the defenceless sections of the community-the unemployed, the disabled, sick, the old, the widows, the children.
the
To then In in the value of money-reflected in rising prices in the shops could often spell disaster.
'IF ONLY_
ALAS, alus, apparently Lord
Beveridge has now forgot-
ten the theories he used to stress so vividly.
record
For now he goes DN with an astonishing list of "If onlys"the Big Might-Have- Beens of Money.
Brith's great scheme of Social Security, based on his famous report of 1942, would not now be in such a financial m1053
IF ONLY full employment had been accompanied by new methods of wage bargaining which would have checked the vicious spiral of rising prices.
IF ONLY World War II had not been succeeded by cold war which, by diverting pro- ductive effort and causing high taxation, has curbed a rise in living standards.
IF ONLY retirement pensions had been Rnanced. as he sug- gested, mainly from contribu- tions and not out of the tax-
payers' pockets.
In other words Beveridge now
odmits that the biggest single factor preventing the achieve ment of Social Security was one that he did not take sufficient
LY RISING PRICES.
BEVERIDGE
CUSHIONS THE SHOCK
WHO SAID
₤86,000,000
Chancellors of the Exchequer for decades to come."
Each year there will be more
An Ex-Spy Tells
About Burgess his is
SEFTON DELMER'S NEWSMAP
decided to get out, and go
DUSSELDORF, and to Oght which I had sacri- OU would expect, would need my name and my career,
you not, that British over to the Russians." Ho Intelligence officers travelled secretly
to Berlin would at least give a routine crossbd into the Russian zone, check-over to a man who surrendered his British pase- ONE: is a close friend of Port to the German Communist police, who gave him an Guy Burgess, the vanished Eastern zone passport n its British diplomat;
TWO: has himself fled from Britain to the Iron Curtain and holds a job now in a Communist office ini Berlin's Soviet sector;
place.
Then ho joined a Commun- at publishing firm, where his next-door neighbour is John
Pest, the former British Rou tera reporter who also crossed over to the Russians.
Well Launched
By now the baron was well launched on the propaganda ling he had come to the West to preach
THREE: is an ex-Briton; FOUR: is an ex-diplomat; FIVE: Is at present visit ing his mother in West Ger- many and therefore avail-
HOW the Soviet Union's only able for questioning?
policy with regard to Germany demilitarisa- Co-Nazification, But so far no
and Lion British How the German People's Intelligence officer has Police
bothered 52-year-old Baron narty had been formed Germany purely as Wolfgang zu Putlitz in his an answer to West German
armament.
Cologne hotel.
They would Only Dr
Otto John, head of the Ger- man Security Services, has had a chat with him.
Quite Ready
be
handed at once, be said,
West abandoned GRYMA-
ment.
HOW the Russians
them-
selvc were longing to leové Germany if only the other occupying Powers would do the
same.
the Gim
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The baron is quite ready
HOW the roundon of Ger- to chat. "You know," he many said to me pensively, sipping effected by talks between tho and the East his Moselle, "I may have West Germans been the indirect inspiration interference from the allies.
Germans themselves without
of Guy Burgess's decision
HOW they hoped to make a to come over to us.” He little extra money by atrangTM smiled and quickly added: Ing for some West-East bual- "Of course I cannot be cer- neas doals.
tam that Maclean and Bur- geas are with us. I have never seen them or even been told anything about them. But then -such things are secret.
"However, I have a good notion that I was responsible. Yes, that is possible-vary possible."
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And he smiled again. After listening to his and more men of 65 and women story, I agree. I too think it of 60 qualifying for ment pension. And each year. 18 "very possible,"
a retire-
there will be a bigger drain on the taxpayers' pocket. In 1977 there will be £417 million to find even more if benefits are raised.
What is to be done about It
all?
Wolfgang zu · Putlitz, member of a Junkers family, had used his position in the German Foreign Office to fight Hitler by passing secret information to the British between 1986 and 1939.
The Government will wait for the full depressing facts and figures which will be revealed
in the Actuary's! But in September 1989 he report. Then it managed to get on a plane
COMING
by Bernard Harris
But now even be warns us that the extra cost of mere ly restoring the scheme to his
original idea a guarantee of "subsistence" for all in need WILL BE ANYTHING FROM £100 MILLION
£160 MILLION A YEAR IMMEDI- ATELY,
ΤΟ
Even allowing for the differ ences between his original pro- posals and the plan put into operation by the Socialists in 1940, the miscalculation is terri- fle. Beveridge is shown to have been millions and millions out. Such miscalculation ill 119 the halo of 12 years ago.
you
will have many
decisions and
Krave
to make.
Are benellis ...lo be raised to
restore the Beveridge principle
of freedom from want?
"subsistence"
|escaped from The Hague
to London.
-Farewell- Party
"Burgess," said the baron, "had been an intimate
immensely in-
If contributions go up, how friend of mine since 1984. are they to be shared? A re- turn to genuine
He was benefits would mean raising pressed with what I had the worker's weekly contribu-done. He kept telling every- tion to at least 95,
one we met be thought I was the bravest man he had met. It was most embarrassing. Probably he made up his mind to follow my example."
Can
em-
• How much extra
•If you want a measure of
ployers afford to pay? their inadequacy
Their ever can contribution pads to production find it in the Increasing num- ber of people who have to seek costs, and British goods are al- ready being priced out of some National Assistance what
wo export markets, used to call poor relief.
Beveridge belloved that when his plan carrie into operation the nced for National Assistance, with its hated means test, would become less and less,
⚫ Should the cost of the scheme be cut by a higher tirement age? Can more oppor- tunities be provided for older people to continue working?
Last time Putlitz and Burgess met was at the farewell party Burgess gave in his Bond Street flat before. his departure for America. But at the last count 1;587,078
It was a terribly wild people were receiving weekly These are some of the tricky allowance more oven than in and troublesome problems that evening," said Putlitz. "But 1900, In each year of so-called le ahead: problems that were everyone was there. Even "security" the number has risen. not envisaged by the taximan Guy Liddle and Blunt of
And, though the basic ides who, as Beveridge recalis, was has misured, the co
cost of Social driving him past Downing
M.I.5."
A
MEAN THE RISK OF SHARP- best-known characters in the, "Social nudget."
INADEQUATE ed the
It is true that here and there
In his report he comments
country."
on
TYE
For in 1942 Beveridge was the Security as we have it today is Street in 1942 and said that Putlitz, 藕 daturalised here in mufti. "I became af a not far short of double the next time he hoped to drive British citizen by then, was ly into account in his plan-I blow" he recalls, "one of the figure Beveridge wrote into his him into Downing Street.
given a £5-a-week job as a That Is
Mainly The blueprint which caused shipping clerk in London. because the Socialists abandon the quick boom in Boveridge "I could hardly live on that;"
"Contribution".
prisciple and Beveridgiam looks a little he said. "I had to out fried pensions the shabby now, And it looks to me fish every day. My rent alone. about "one of the pleasantest have to be supported by the full-strength alert that a sharp features of the Boveridge taxpayers from now on ly rising cost of living could boom:-
Its loss this year, Beveridge by itself upset the whole
writes, Is "the Arst red shoot. schemo and leave what Bever "More than once I caught of a tree that will grow to
the
futuro prices
difficulty
of forecasting
for
But nowhere will you flad a' has lately indeed written National Insurance Fund will as if the top-heavy, structure|cost me £8 a week.
idge called "The Glant Want" young women surreptitiously overshadow the lives of all our
stül rampaging round the sketching me as they sat opposit country.
mo in the train between Oxford
I suspect that in confessing and Paddington; if I liked the hla error -12 years later tooks of the young women, ag Beveridge is seeking to cushion I generally did, asked to be the big shock that is coming to shown
tographed for who appears
us nii.
A PROBE
OR. I can tell you, now that at the end of this month
Die Government Actuary is due
to start his arst full probe into
the finances of Social Security,
And what he reveals
going to be to the lilding of any RUNNIN DABAS APT-256% Beveridge calculated the
the first geared his scheme, the
£88,00
inmiranco. standarti
What has a min
and au
hurriedly run up on the basis "But while I starved Britain
of its design will have to be bogan to support the rearma. drastically molded.
ment of Germany and tho NE
rebirth of German, militárism. Yes, the Beveridge bubble is "Everything in tact was be- finally bust.
ing restored that I abhorred
Alec Guinness Taken For A Priest
to be so conscious of himself to ALEC Guinnem believes
...that
He has a vigorous bout of Judo
say now about the vast plece, of his latest film is his most on a stone floor.
bookkeeping
that
of his original blueprint
out hectic. He has the title role in
Father Browii," based on GK
tracies
He admits that, founda-Chesterton's stories of the tion of Social Security-whas (whimaigal - priest .. whờ ho the "gubairtence pritis, down cronica in order to reform diplomus been undermin
them.
Despite an incredsey porn the In "Father Tory Government the benefits in thrown paid to the work
abled, and the
not
is, hardahla
dl the site of.
with his
He falls from the top of high ladder and shifts: crates of fall milk bottles. six perspiring takoto mal 1. hide-out: for a potential conse
proved
Back in London, where the company moved into such public places as Victoria Station fund Buckingham Palace Road, o lookers. falled to identify the a humble clergyman, a pair
-rimmed
glassene perch
Older Now
Certainly the baron
some
looked
s though he could do with drawn and worn and far older cash. His face looked
than when I had last seen him': in London almost nine years":
"BUL" and up flashed
tho propaganda line, I am happy to be lighting Nazlem again."
Well, there it is. Don't you think this friend of Burgess la
Shangri - la
Ball,
Motor Show at Gilmans:
Civil Ald Defence Exercise. Shamrock
Dance at Y.M.C.A.
Army Athletics, Boundary Street. Hongkong Defence
Force Shoot
Opening of Kwong Wah Infirmary. Darts Finals Presentation at NAAFI Club. Presentation .at ..Central Police Station. Thoresen G Co 50th Anniversary. Launching of the "Man Hei".
a man our inteligence experts SOUTH should take the trouble to look over while he is around?
Belilios
Girls'
School Sports.
St. Paul's College Bazaar. St. Patrick's Ball.
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