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THE Prime Minister, in a statement on the Civil Service on June 24 in the House of Commons, paid a well-deserved tribute to the Service as a whole. This praise was timely, for much current criticism of the Civil Service has been both unfounded and unfair, and has been directed against officials when it should rightly have been directed against those responsible for the policies which the Civil Service is called upon to execute. Mr. Attlee was right to repudiate the fashion of slighting the Civil Service, and to point out that we shall neither get the best out of the Service nor be able to recruit to it the energetic and able young men and women it needs if the practice of depreciating its work continues.
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Recruitment and Efficiency in the Civil Service. Nature 160, 239–241 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160239a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160239a0