Sir William Beveridge contributed a most interesting article to last
week's Nation. He called it " An Economic General Staff," and he devoted himself to pointing out the need for the formation of such a body. Just as we have a permanent " thinking machine " in the General Staff of the Army to consider military problems and a similar machine to consider naval ones, so it is suggested we need an economic General Staff to investigate national economic problems. Thus the Cabinet, when it had to make far-reaching decisions on these problems—as it now must constantly do—would have all the data placed before it. Sir William Beveridge promises a practical proposal for the establishment of such a body in a sub- sequent article, which we look forward to with the greatest interest. The practical difficulties should surely be by no means insuperable : the need is obvious.
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