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Title: Rebuilding Britain
A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War

Author: Alfred Hopkinson

Release Date: February 2, 2005 [EBook #14870]

Language: English

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Rebuilding Britain

A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction after the World War

By

Sir Alfred Hopkinson, K.C.

Cassell and Company, Ltd
London, New York and Melbourne
1918

CONTENTS

Part I.--The Course

1. ASPIRATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS

Part II.--Peace

A.--INTERNATIONAL PEACE

2. LEAGUE OF NATIONS--THE NEED
3. LEAGUE OF NATIONS--THE SCHEME
4. LEAGUE OF NATIONS--THE CONDITIONS
5. LEAGUE OF NATIONS--ITS SCOPE AND AIM
6. CONCLUSIONS REACHED
7. VICTORY AND PEACE

B.--POLITICAL PEACE

8. PEACE AND THE CONSTITUTION
9. PEACE AND DEMOCRACY

C.--INDUSTRIAL PEACE

10. INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS
11. LONG HOURS
12. WAGES

D.--RELIGIOUS PEACE

13. CO-OPERATION

Part III.--Retrenchment

14. STATE EXPENDITURE AND INCOME
15. NATIONAL EXPENDITURE

Part IV.--Reform

16. THE FIELD
17. RESTORATION OF LAW AND LIBERTY
18. RESTORATION OF INDUSTRY
19. HOUSING
20. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
21. AFFORESTATION
22. LAW REFORM
23. PURIFICATION OF POLITICAL LIFE

Part V.--The Goal

24. UNION AND REGENERATION

Part I

THE COURSE

CHAPTER I

ASPIRATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS

_I think I see, as it were above the hill-tops of time,
the glimmerings of the dawn of a better and a nobler day
for the country and the people that I love so
well._--JOHN BRIGHT.

The suggestion has been made to me that in these days of rapid
development, when proposals, so bewildering in their extent, for change
and for reconstruction are being made, it would be useful to present in
popular form and in the compass of a small volume som