Proposed Administrative Reorganization in Great Britain

Extract

We may still assume that the principal political effect of the war will be the enlargement of popular control,over the agencies of government. Second only to this, however, is likely to be the development of more economical and efficient administration. The exigencies of war have put the older administrative organization and procedure in the various countries to the supreme test; great tasks of administrative reconstruction have been carried out with an expeditiousness unknown in times of peace; the experience of even a few tense years has demonstrated the permanent value of many of the newer arrangements; unprecedented fiscal burdens will cause it to be more than ever insisted upon that for every dollar spent full value shall be received.