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NOW that the activities of a number of Government Departments, which were called into existence by the exigencies of the war, are happily likely to be nearing their end, we may hope to see the reports of their work given to the public; it is to be desired that a mass of valuable information, accumulated often at vast expense, should not be relegated to the limbo of a cobwebbed official pigeon-hole, but should be made generally available. It is scarcely to be expected that many of these reports will be as valuable as that lately issued by the Controller of the Department for the Development of Mineral Resources in the United Kingdom (Cd. 9184, price 6d. net), seeing that Sir Lionel Phillips was one of the rare exceptions, amongst the small army of Controllers appointed by the Government, inasmuch as he had a thorough acquaintance with his subject before he assumed control; perhaps also that is why he did not hold his office for very long. It is characteristic of the attitude of the Ministry of Munitions towards a courageous and capable official under it, that the Minister takes special care to state that he accepts no responsibility for the opinions and conclusions contained in this report.
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LOUIS, H. The Future of British Mineral Resources . Nature 102, 366–367 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/102366b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/102366b0