British Postwar Planning.

The article focuses on the political planning in Great Britain after second world war. The author remarks that although, British statesman Winston Churchill summed up Britain's postwar program in three words, "work, food and houses," swift, definite answers to the issues involved are difficult to discover. A satisfactory rehousing program, for instance, cannot be evolved overnight, the supply of food is complicated by the entangling agreements and pledges between British farmers, foreign suppliers, Ottawa Agreement nations and Lend-Lease countries, and the provision of work rests upon favorable conditions of national and international finance and trade. Parliamentary leaders continue to emphasize the need of restoring economic equilibrium between pent-up demand and short supplies, between the distorted structure of wartime industry and peacetime requirements, between the distribution of war debts and the continuance of peacetime trade. Many of the British plans for peacetime, as for example those concerning improved social security, education and health, represent the culmination of a process which began long before this conflict.