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Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. 50: A Monthly Review; July-December, 1901
The Report Of the Committee on War Office Organisation is being discussed from many points of View. It attracts attention not merely by its disclosure of remarkable and surprising defects in the conduct Of War Office business, but because the whole circumstances of the Committee's appointment and procedure, and the rapid publica tion of the results, constitute a binding Obligation on the Secretary of State to proceed with the improvements recommended. His reference to the Committee contains, in fact, the germ Of the con clusions arrived at. He must both have had a clear idea of the defects the Committee were sure to find and the suggestions for remedy that would be made. The report itself, I need hardly add, is a singularly able document, absolutely clear and convincing; while the examination Of the Witnesses has been well directed, and the whole inquiry conducted in a business-like manner. I desire to Offer, as a contribution to the discussion Of this invaluable report, a few' Observations which occur to me on a comparison of War Office organisation and its defects with the business Of other Government departments. Not being a military expert, I find various matters in the report which must be accepted on the authority of the Com mittee, but there are certain other things to which it may be of use to draw public attention, from the point of View of a student of governmental and constitutional procedure, who has had some ex parience, however little, Of actual Government administration.
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