"Tt appears that, a century ago, you In England were faced with [Somewhat similar problem. You were faced with the task of building a civil service to run a much more Intrleate machinery of government than you had at that time; Without this, your remarkable deve-Topment could not continue. That your country has passed through the Storms of the past two generations} without social upheaval appears {o me {o have been in no small part. ne to the fact that your universities fencouragea the elite of their stud-tents to enter the service of the state, fand trained them to be competent, Drosdminded statesmen and administrators. It is partly through the Infuence of Oxford and Cambridge} that politics and the civil service are in England accounted such honourable professions.
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