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The Beveridge Report, officially entitled Social Insurance and Allied Service (Cmd 6404), was a government report published by the economist William Beveridge in 1942 on the future of social welfare in the United Kingdom.

Full Employment in a Free Society (1944)


 * Education Act 1944
 * National Health Service Act 1946
 * Post-war consensus
 * Industrial Charter (1947)

Reception
Labour Party attempted to identify itself with the Beveridge Committee from its foundation in May 1941.

"Nearly all analyses of Labour's election victory [in 1945] note that the public associated the party with Beveridge, despite Beveridge's standing as a Liberal candidate. This was not a coincidence. From its conception, the party actively sought to link itself in the public mind with the Beveridge committee and its conclusions."

https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-politique-2014-3-page-24.htm#

International reception
There was significant international interest in the Beveridge Report from its publication. 150,000 copies of the report were sold overseas; almost a quarter of the number sold in the United Kingdom itself. 50,000 were purchased in the United States alone. It was widely promoted internationally in British propaganda, including to German-occupied Europe. Details of the report were broadcast on the BBC European Service in 22 languages, and copies were airdropped by the Royal Air Force and it was widely discussed in underground media published by the resistance. A summary of the report was discovered in Hitler's Bunker in Berlin in May 1945 which contrasted it favorably with Nazi Germany's own system, introduced in 1940.

Accordingly, Beveridge's conception of social welfare would be influential in the forms of social security adopted in Europe after the conflict. The post-war systems introduced in Belgium, France, Netherlands, and Norway were noticeably influenced by Beveridge's ideas.

Canada Beveridge's 1944 book was widely copied in Australia's white paper "Full Employment in Australia", published in 1945 which defined the country's economic policy until 1975.

"The Beveridge report was to social policy in the 1940s, what the Atlantic Charter of 1941, or the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights were to international affairs. Beveridge was read all around the world, from London to Bombay, from Canada to the USA, to France to Italy, to Australia and New Zealand, to Germany and South America."

International Brigades

 * International Brigades
 * Not all foreign volunteers who served with the Spanish Republic were part of the International Brigades. Notably the Soviet Union which sent about 2,150 military advisers during the conflict, though never exceeding about 800 at any one time.
 * Anthony Beevor considered the estimate compiled by Michel Lefebvre and Rémi Skoutelsky in 2003 to be the "most accurate figures by country, but still uncertain".
 * Approximately 1 in 10 are Jewish.
 * 7,000 killed during the conflict.