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Commission on Social justice: Beveridge's appeal for an attack on five giant evils
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When the Beveridge report was published on 1 December 1942 with
its clarion call for an attack on the "five giant evils" of Want,
Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness, queues formed all night
outside the Stationary Office's Kingsway headquarters - barely a
hundred yards from where the Borrie Commission launched its "new
Beveridge" yesterday - to buy it.
Sales of the full Beveridge report topped 100,000 within a
month, and reached 600,000 after a shortened summary was produced.
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