The Welfare State
"\/HEN I hear some of my contemporaries deploring the sins of the welfare state, I wonder how clearly they remember the beggars of their youth, Foreigners used to be horrified by what they felt was the brutal indifference of London in the ‘eighties to human misery and suffering. No child sees those muti- , lated or starving spectres of humanity today, but some of us who saw them have not forgotten them and so we are able to feel less indignant about the expense of social amelioration."--Comp-ton Mackenzie, speaking in a BBC programme about his memories as he approaches the age of seventy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 11
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105The Welfare State New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 11
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