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the department or try to do its job for it. This is
 
one of the chief reasons why it works smoothly. Depart-
 
mental jealousies are avoided; and the sound principle
 
is followed that you do not get two bodies trying to
 
do the same job, but assign the task to the right body 
 
and see that it is equipped to do it properly. In
 
this way departments have come to look on the Executive
 
not merely as a coordinator, still less as a rival, but 
 
I hope as a helpful partner to whom they readily bring 
 
their problems and their troubles.
 
     The method of the Executive has been largely
 
determined by the fact that it did not create the security
 
system of Great Britain but found a large number of
 
security problems needing urgent solution. In the early
 
stages it was necessary for the chairman himself to
 
bring forward subjects for consideration in order to
 
ensure that no part of the field was overlooked But as
        
the usefulness of the machinery afforded by the Executive
 
became apparent, the constituent departments have them
 
selves tended more and more to raise of their own
 
accord any problem in which a new question of principle
 
is involved or which calls for cooperation with other
 
departments. As a rule representatives are able to come
 
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