In despair the cry is going up for a Dictator
or for a Welfare Board. This is the price London is paying for years of negligence, for tolerating such expensive luxuries as the Metropolitan Water Board, with its vast salaried staff and separate committees and bogus democracy. At the moment London is fighting for its life and one cannot afford to be aca- demic, but it is to be hoped that someone is observing the whole situation with a clear and objective eye. Whatever the imme- diate future, London will have to be recast, and there is a chance of acting on the best advice of countless Commissions or of letting things drift. The first and main consideration is to determine what are the essential regional services which a Greater London must control, and secondly what functions can be safely entrusted to smaller local authorities.
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