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ONE MAN, GREAT BRITAIN'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, IS GETTING ON WITH THE JOB OF PERFECTING AND OPERATING PLANS WHICH, POLITICIANS IN THE KNOW ARE WARNING: THE COUNTRY, WILL CHANGE THE LIVES OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD.

He is Sir Horace Wilson, Chief Industrial Ad- visor to the Government since 1930, and, during Mr. Chamberlain's Premiership, adviser on foreign affairs.

He is Britain's first Civil Servant and, in fact,

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Reconstruction of the Air Minis, The National Register, boosted try and the Ministry of Defence: as a contribution to voluntary na-

Setting up a National Register; tional service, is, obviously, not vo Overhaul of the entire Civil Ser-luntary, Anyone refusing to sign vice;

it would be marked and in danger of victimisation.

Preparation of plans to meet an impending trade slump;

Creation of an all-embracing and rigid Press censorship.

Besides the swift change in for- eign policy, which threw the For- eign Office into chaos and had re- percussions in other departments, Sir Horace became a public figure like the Board of Trade and Over- when he accompanied Mr. Cham-seas Trade, many other depart- berlain to Godesberg. By displacments have been raided for execu- tive personnel in order to buttress ing Sir Robert Vansittart as the Premier's assistant on that impor-the Air and Defence Ministries. tant trip, he revealed the deep clea- vage between the Cabinet and the Foreign Office.

As a result, the whole Civil Ser- Although his only claim to expert vice is in a state of disorganisation knowledge of foreign affairs (he and requires vigorous, immediate is a trained economist), is member ship of the Traveller's Club, it is widely known that his advice is "never inconvenient" to the Prime Minister and that his stock stands high in the "Inner Cabinet."

MUDDLE AND PROFITEERING

The decision to hand over to Sir Horace the task of reconstructing the Air and Defence Ministries, with which he became familiar as adviser on the many new appoint- ments made in these Ministries in the past two years, has been taken for three reasons.

overhaul.

COMING SLUMP ·

Whitehall is quite frank in its view that a new trade slump is on the way and that it will be "worse than 1931." Failure to plan ahead to meet this slump is largely Sir Horace's responsibility.

But the new proposals the Gov- ernment has in mind are less econ- mic than political and social. They are aimed at smothering any unrest which will interefere with the re-

armament programme.

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Control of the Press will be one

of preventing public feeling. from finding. adequate expression.

The establishment of a Ministry of Information, about which there Public knowledge of the muddle, has been so much fatuous "hush incompetence and gross profiteer-hush," is now regarded as a first ing characterising these Ministries step in deciding what news the has aroused in the public mind a

Press will be allowed to print. disquiet so grave that it will des- troy the Government unless it is

This is the weakest and least settled.

The Government is determined considered part of the Government that there shall be no Ministry of policy. It is recognised that, with Supply lest the probe, which the the experience of the Fascist coun- formation of such a Ministry would tries, where the "tied Press" has make inevitable, reveals further lost circulation and revenue, even examples of their improvident ste-reactionary Press lords might chal- lenge censorship. A first-class row wardship.

over this issue now would endanger, the whole policy.

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received. Lord Swinton, the Prime Minister tich ships trading in Spanish wa- does not feel that Sir Kingsley cantera, isarning out badly.

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