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The Council is intended to contain people belonging to all parties.,
or to none; and therefore finds it difficult to give unanimous
advice on policy. At present., the Council has not been properly
fitted into the Constitution. It may become the type of a new
kind of Civil Service, recruited not from people just finishing
their education, but from those with experience of the world;
and it may turn into the Civil Service Department of a Minister
for Economic Affairs. Its present uncertainty is a sign that the
Constitution needs to develop a new organ to deal with the
economic problems thrust upon it by a fast-changing world.

BOOKS:

Report of the Bridgeman Committee on the Post Office. 1932.
Report of the Ulhwater Committee on Broadcasting* 1936.
LLEWELLYN SMITH. The Board of Trade.
H. MORRISON. Socialisation and Transport.
ROBSONj AND OTHERS. Public Enterprise.

(New Fabian Research Bureau).