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IN a paper entitled “Regional Organization during and after the War” read before the Royal Society of Arts on February 7, Brigadier Sir Edward Tandy described the regional organization developed for defence purposes and discussed its adjustment to meet peace-time requirements after the War. Reviewing our existing peace-time machinery for local government, which he urged must be accepted but reinforced by regional organization to meet emergencies like that of war, Sir Edward Tandy suggested that the easiest way to establish the regional organization required for peace would be to accept the system established for war and retain a suitable nucleus of staff at each regional headquarters. These headquarters would be available almost at once to form advisory committees to consider how new measures of reconstruction could be best applied to each region, or the best distribution within each region of any funds which might be allotted by the central Government for particular purposes. They could also assist as liaison officers in smoothing difficulties between the central Government and local government authorities and the like, and Sir Edward suggested that the commissioners should be designated Commissioners of Public Welfare, to indicate the wide general scope of their activities. Such regional organization could easily be discarded if it. proved to be superfluous, but Sir Edward indicated the difficulties which are at present continually arising in the absence of a regional system for peacetime purposes.
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Regional Organization and Local Government. Nature 145, 697 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145697b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145697b0