Abstract
IN his speech to the Trades Union Congress on October 9, Mr. Ernest Bevin stated that the Cabinet had decided against the establishment of a Ministry of Reconstruction to consider the problems of the peace and to prepare plans for meeting them. Instead, a Cabinet committee has been set up to consider post-War questions and to work out general principles for guidance. There will be many who think that Mr. Bevin did less than justice to the work of the Ministry of Reconstruction established under Dr. (now Lord) Addison in 1917. Whether we hold that the task of preparing for the future should be the task of a special Ministry of Reconstruction or, as suggested by Prof. J. H. Jones, of an Economic Reconstruction Commission, the task is clearly that of the Cabinet, and the gravest danger to be avoided is that of hasty improvisation by war-weary Ministers in control of departments that have been overburdened by the urgent tasks imposed by the War.
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The Ministry of Works and Buildings. Nature 146, 661–663 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146661a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146661a0