Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Machinery of Government Committee, 1918
The Report of the War Cabinet for 1917 (cd. 9005) Opens with the following statement* The most important constitutional development in the United Kingdom during the last year has been the introduction of the War Cabinet system. This change was the direct outcome Of the War itself. As the magnitude Of the War increased, it became evident that the Cabinet system of peace days was inadequate to cope with the novel conditions. The enlarged scope of Government activity and the con sequent creation oi several new departments, made a Cabinet, consisting of all the Departmental Ministers meeting under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister, far too unwieldy for the practical conduct of the War. It was extremely difiicult for so large a body to give that resolute central direction which became more imperative the more the population and resources of the nation had to be organised for a single purpose the defeat of German militarism.
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