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THE fundamental questions of the machinery of government and its development to serve the growing burdens which are laid upon it by the increasing integration of political and economic affairs are being repeatedly emphasized by the problems of war and reconstruction alike. These fundamental issues have been admirably stated in a report which has been issued by the Select Committee on National Expenditure. Dealing essentially with “War Production and Methods of Settling Prices for War Stores”, the fourteenth report of the 1942–43 session contains a short section on the machinery of government in which the wider issues are lucidly stated. The section follows logically on an earlier report, the sixteenth of the 1941–42 session, and should be carefully considered in connexion with the reorganization of either the Civil Service or of ministerial structure and responsibility itself.
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Planning and the Machinery of Government. Nature 153, 231–234 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153231a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153231a0