The Beveridge Report, widely regarded as the founding document of Britain’s welfare state, was released 70 years ago this week. The document had been commissioned 18 months earlier but the timing of its publication was fortuitous. In late 1942, the American navy halted Japanese expansion in the Pacific, the British army defeated Rommel in north Africa and Russian troops were encircling the German forces at Stalingrad. While the war would last another two-and-a-half years, its outcome was becoming daily more clear.
70年前的這一週，《貝弗里奇報告》(Beveridge Report)發表。人們普遍認爲，那份報告奠定了英國「福利國家」的基礎。那份報告是在18個月之前委託撰寫的，但發表的時機頗爲幸運。1942年後期，美國海軍在太平洋成功遏制了日軍的擴張，英國軍隊在北非擊敗了隆美爾(Rommel)，而蘇軍在史達林格勒包圍了德軍。儘管當時距離二戰結束還有兩年半的時間，但戰爭的結局已日趨清晰。
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