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SIR GEORGE GILLETT'S admirable first report as Commissioner for the Special Areas of England and Wales, covering the year ended September 30, 1937, shows no departure from the example of frankness and independence of judgment that was set by Sir Malcolm Stewart. The report is indeed in striking contrast to the evidence tendered by the Board of Trade to the Royal Commission on the Geographical Distribution of the Industrial Population. Like Sir Malcolm Stewart, Sir George Gillett stoutly upholds the principle that the State should control the location of industry, asserting that the introduction of tariffs and quotas has enhanced the Government's responsibility in this matter, and that social and strategic as well as economic causes are driving the Government to abandon the old laissez-faire attitude. The recommendations in the recent report of the Import Duties Advisory Committee on the present position and future development of the iron and steel industry, no less than the appointment of the Royal Commission, illustrate this tendency.
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Conditions in the Special Areas of Great Britain. Nature 141, 46–47 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141046a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141046a0