SPEED
Sk—Lord Gort's despatch on the Dunkirk evacuation deserves the closest study, and stresses again the fact that speed of action is of the utmost importance an effecting military decisions. It is not yet affirmed that our legislators are fully alive to -this vital issue, and many Government Departments are still continuing the policy that was out-dated before the last year, of slackness and procrastination. As an illustration of this I have only today received a communication from the Board of Trade in reply to a previous enquiry of my ostr. 22 days after this was despatched, and now stating that they have lost the original communication. If this was exceptional, allowance could be made for it, but it must be the common experience oI these who are in constant contact with many Government Department,.
Shirer's Berlin Diary stresses the fact that wireless commun:- cations are now a regular routine in Government Departments and with the Army services in Germany, and an Army officer informed me only this week that, in a recent practice, it was found that speed in contact was essential to success in a manoeuvre. Every one to power at the present time, including our Ministers, must realise the new world • in which we are living, and increase our efficiency be speeding up to the highese point all our administration.—Yours sincerely, ANGUS WATSON. Whitewell, Adderstone Crescent, Newcastle-on-Tyne 2.
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