Nothing explains the struggle over this subject except that the people found it a bitter hardship to pay the debts, as, indeed, was the case; and the idea of not paying them at all grew into a hope and then a policy.
Beveridge highlights the public's struggle with debt and the growing sentiment against paying them, which became a policy issue.
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