Herald Copyright, 1942, New York Tribune Inc. Beveridge Reveals Plan 1 To End Want in Britain 150,000-Word Report Asks Cradle-to - - Grave Insurance After War By Geoffrey Parsons jr. From the Herald Tribune Bureau Copyright, 1942. New York Tribune Inc. LONDON, Dec. 1:-The blueprint of a revolutionary program to abolish want in Great Britain after the war by an all-embracing plan of social insurance was placed before the House of Commons today. It was the long-awaited report of Sir William Beveridge, distinguished British economist and government planner, who was commissioned eighteen months ago to make a com- prehensive survey of existing schemes of social insurance in Britain. His 110,000-word report, with 40,000 words of appendices and a fat supplementary volume of evidence heard, is certain to prove a con- Herald Tribune-Acme troversial document, destined to re- Sir William Beveridge veal the social goals toward which the people and government of Brit- his report he states: "Now, when ain are heading. the war is abolishing landmarks of Beveridge, who qualifies as Brit- every kind, is the opportunity for ain's one-man "brain trust," admits using experience in a clear field. A that his program "is in some ways revolutionary moment in the world's a revolution, but in more important history is the time for revolutions, ways it is a natural development not for patching." from the past. It is a British revo- The House of Commons will de- lution." bate the report next month. Al- Again, in another paragraph of (Continued on page 8. column 2)