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Austerity

T almost seems like another age

but it was only twenty years ago when the war ended and the Labour Government came to power. This collection of essays* succeed in ca turing the keynotes of this shadowy era before Mac. and ITV took over. From Snoek to Sir Stafford, and from the heady idealism of July, 1945, to the disillusionment of 1951 it is all recorded. It is so distant that bits are hard to believe. There was a rush on Wimbledon Post Office by terrified Tories who withdrew their savings, fearing that the revolution was nigh. The Tory candidate for Jarrow did send a telegram to Winston Churchill saying that “Tyneside would like to touch the hem of your garment on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of next week,” and Woodrow Wyatt did ask in the House of Commons, “What is the use of having an orderly revolution if it turns out not to be revolution at all?” Buy this book. You will even find out whether or not Sir Hartley Shawcross said, ““We are the masters now.”

L. Morgan *“The Age of Austerity — 1945- §1” by M. Sissons and P. French, Penguin, 5/-.