The Government have decided to create a Committee of Home
Affairs. That is to say, they frankly acknowledge that the excessive centralization which is the result of exclusive control by the War Cabinet has been a failure. The War Cabinet has in effect to be enlarged because it is found that so small a number cannot possibly do all the work of the country as well as manage the war. In practice it will no doubt appear that the Committee is a secondary Cabinet, although the Government in making known their intentions have not allowed the word " Cabinet " to be used. A too ample admis- sion of disillusionment about the original War Cabinet idea—the very small body of men who were to run the war by concentrating their attention on it without interruption from an outer ring—must not be expected. The decision is entirely wise, and the Government could not have appointed a better man to preside over the new Committee than Sir George Cave, the Home Secretary.
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