would normally be approximately equal to the proceeds his stock, in a "Retail Trades War-Time Investment Fund". Investors would be entitled (a) to a licence after the war, under the Location of Retail Businesses Order or any similar machinery which may then exist, to set up in business again, (b) to a loan at a low rate of interest of half his investment in the Fund or £500, whichever is the less". Both the proposed assurance of a right of re-entry and the proposed grant of financial assistance to re-entrants raise issues of wide significance in the field of reconstruction.