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terials used by the try is more complex. The program- —and says: "The me formulated by Sir Arthur Salter try with a wider seems, indeed, to be presented ains, and is indeed to the public mind for the first time an before."

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, indeed, find for the delays in nistry of Supply.

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equally difficult to the Essential Com- ast year was passed hy it still does not serves to be stored, petroleum, fertili-

with this book, and it may take some time before it leads to action.

Apart from the mobilisation of in- dustry for armaments, the rest of our life has still to be carried on. Sir Arthur points to the disturbance which would be caused in our insur- ance system by the emergency trans- sfer of goods and in our retail system by the migration of many groups of customers. Such problems require fresh handling, and having urged in another chapter the creation of an Economic General Staff, parallel to but separate from the Committee of Imperial Defence, he suggests entire reorientation of the relations of the business world to the ministration.

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The Civil Service, admirable for routine work, needs, in his view, im- mediate reinforcement-"at the top with leading men in industry and science, and throughout its

ranks with young men of energy and con-

He adds: structive ability."

"Some of these should be specia- who, while e why our industry lists and others men

without specialised experience, apted in a broader

in- risks of war, the have a trained and adaptable

It will be quite useless be that the Gov- telligence. in other fields of merely to recruit at the bottom of the administrative and other tion, waits for pub-

classes." olt it into action.

public can appre- The proposal to make such aratively clear-cut change now, and not under the

actual itions supply, the hurry and stress of

problem of indus- conditions, comes with the greater

F ITALY INSPECTS TROOPS FROM SPAIN.—Italian yho have returned from Spain after fighting for Gener-

r the last two years, being inspected by King Victor on

at Naples.

George McManus

R. JIGGS-A MAN JUST AVE ME THIS PACKAGE THE DOOR-HE SAID DU LEFT IT ON THE AR AT DINTY MOORES-

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war

Jimmy's Kitchen

force from one who has held a high position both in the pre-war Civil Service and in the special Ministries created during the Great War. But it is coupled with a warning that the task is, even so, too great for Government service alone, and the initiative must come from the private leaders of industry, plan- ning out the conditions under which their concerns could function under air warfare and bringing pressure on the Government to provide accept the administrative ma- chinery.

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BROADENING GOVERNMENT'S

BASIS

Meanwhile the author suggests the strengthening of the Government itself, with an Inner Cabinet con- sisting in part of Ministers without portfolio, and a personnel drawn from a wider basis, including not only men at present in Opposition, but men outside Parliamentary poli- tics. He suggests the names of Mr. Bevin, Lord Cadman and (with the assent of Dominion Governments) personalities such as Gen. Smuts, Mr. Bruce and Mr. Bennett. Failing broader-based Government, he wishes to see "a Committee of For- eign Policy and Defence (or Public Safety) consisting of 20 or 30 of the most trusted members of all impor- tant parties and groups.

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Sir Arthur's book is not primari- ly destructive; he paints the back- ground of our troubles only so that he may indicate the route back to security, which he does not present as something simple and slogan- like.

British policy, he truly says, "even though it be rightly conceived and directed towards the right goal must now be as it did not need to be till quite recently-opportunist in detail." But there can be only one end to an armaments race or a grouping of Powers, unless the tension is relaxed from one side or

both..

If the tension is not relaxed, and if a war comes, we shall doubtless strive to win it and to formulate peace terms. Sir Arthur suggests that we should, in broad outline, formulate these peace terms now, publish them and, if possible, get them accepted without a war.

LONG-TERM INTERNATIONAL

POLICY

His suggestions-economic, coloni- al, juridical are, he admits, un- satisfactory at the present critical stage, and they imply a change of attitude on the part of the Axis Governments which is not yet even dimly visible. But Herr Hitler has from time to time greatly influenced opinion both in his own country and in ours by "offers" which may or may not have been intended to be practical. Would it do any harm to borrow this technique, with the idea in mind that the offer, if not im- mediately accepted, shall (for a change) remain permanently in view and await acceptance?

Certainly the offer would radically affect opinion in, for instance, the United States, and might reach the German- people despite their rulers.

The long-term international policy, the discussion of which forms INEXPENSIVE. the framework of Sir Arthur Sal- SATISFYING" ter's book, can thus be seen to have the same urgency as the defence

which form its kernel.

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