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                                           Rec'd 10:45 p.m.
 
Secretary of State,
 
     Washington
 
     6234, December 27, 7 a.m.  (SECTION FOUR).
 
     Method of the Executive.
 
     The title "Security Executive" is somewhat mislead-
 
ing to an outsider, as the Executive is a coordinating
 
body and does not itself take the operative action to 
 
give effect to its recommendations.  It is the function
 
of the Executive to see that security problems are
 
properly envisaged, that the best practical measures
 
are framed to meet them and that responsibility for 
 
action is assigned to the appropriate departments.
 
It keeps in close touch with all departments to follow
 
up action and to see that recommendation are working
 
out satisfactorily in practice.  At any moment problems
 
and action are reviewed.  But the Executive has set
 
itself resolutely against doing the work of other depart-
 
ments.  If a department needs strengthening or expanding
 
to undertake some new duty, the Executive makes the 
 
necessary recommendations and gives the department all
 
the help it can; but the Executive does not supplant
 
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