-2- #6234, ( SEC. FOUR) from London. December 27, 7 a.m. 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 to |