William H. Beveridge, The London School of Economics and Its Problems 1919–1937, pp. 15–16. Beveridge was director of the LSE from 1919–1937. Like Fabian directors Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and other Fabian eminences, Beveridge was an enthusiast for eugenics, to curtail the breeding of undesirable elements of the proletariat. Beveridge, credited as the father of Britain’s ‘welfare state’, contended in 1909, ‘those men who through general defects are unable to fill such a whole place in industry, are to be recognised as “unemployable”. They must become the acknowledged dependents of the State... but with complete and permanent loss of all citizen rights — including not only the franchise but civil freedom and fatherhood’. See: Dennis Sewell, ‘How Eugenics Poisoned the Welfare State’, Spectator, 25 November 2009; https://web.archive.org/web/20101203124517/http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/5571423/part_4/how-eugenics-poisoned-the-welfare-state.thtml.