Britain Acts

With the war almost won, Britain acted swiftly and powerfully in domestic and foreign affairs last week. A momentous social security plan (see below) laid a firm floor under British internal policy. Three days later the Conservative Government turned to foreign affairs. In two important speeches, on successive days, Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden laid the basis for future British policy in Europe. With Parliament as a world rostrum, Anthony Eden announced in effect that Britain had returned to her traditional policy of balance of power in a Europe from which Germany would be eliminated. To the countries of Europe's Atlantic community --France, the Low Countries, Norway--he proposed in effect a West European bloc.

* Last week, at Russia's demand, the Finnish Government began to round up several thousand Estonians who had fled from the Russians to Finland. They would be sent to Russia.

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