The Rewards of Courage
SIR,—In your article The Omens for 1952 appears the sentence: " But in this country courage never .fails of its reward." Although we should all like to believe that this is true, I greatly fear that it is no more than a catch-phrase.
Between the two wars Lloyd George advocated a policy of large-scale public works to " conquer unemployment." Such a policy was not only courageous, but nearly all economists and politicians would now agree that it would have been right. Lack of it has left us with a legacy of bitterness which is completely understandable, but is costing the country dear, and will go on doing so. Quite apart from this, the country is the poorer by the projects that could have been carried out with the surplus labour but were not.
I am not trying to show that any particular party is to blame, but I do say that LloydeGeorge saw the dangers of the situation, proposed a courageous remedy, yet failed to reap any " reward " whatever.—
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