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THE eleventh report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure gives fresh pertinence to the discussion in the House of Lords on the extent, control and management of the essential public services, which Lord Reith initiated, and Mr. Bevin's speech to the National Chamber of Trade on July 15 .also raised these important questions as to the exact relations between Government and industry and the nature and extent of State intervention. Whatever concern may be felt as to the capacity of the Civil Service in this respect, no report that has fairly faced the issues involved in reconstruction fails to recognize that some large measure of intervention will be necessary for a prolonged period after the War. That follows at once from the recognition that the Government must assume responsibility for creating the social and economic conditions in which our objectives of economic security, steady employment, greater equality of opportunity and distribution and a rising standard of living can be secured.
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PUBLIC UTILITIES IN RECONSTRUCTION. Nature 150, 329–332 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150329a0
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