"Hie has been Secretary of the Lon~ don Labour Party for nearly 25 years. In 1920 he was appointed Chairman of the British Labour Party.
"tu the Labour Administration of 1020, to 1981 he was Minister of Transport, "Herbert Morrison has proved himself to be one of the outstanding administrators of the post-war era and as. Leader of the London County Council for six years he was re~ sponsible for a Government that was both efficient and imaginative men goes a hatred of dictatorship and all that it implies.
"No one believes more thoroughly' than Herbert Morrison in the right of talent to it's career. But talent for him must be set in a social context.
"The individualist who craves opportunity for himself alone who has no feeling or regard for others is a Permanent enemy of Mr. Morrison, "He respects ability, but ability harnessed to the public welfare is what he admires.
"He is of his own generation with 'a strong sense of what the immediate problems are and how to. tackle them. This has been the secret of hig success up to now and is the reason why he is the type of man needed for the successful prosecution the wa "The type of man too who will be needed for the successful negotiation of the Peace where his thought which set in the terms of the practical Problems of the day will ensure prac-teal solutions of those problems.
"He has a certain ruthlessness about him a quality that he needs when confronting his present respon= sibilities, He doesn't let any obstacle Interfere with his progress towards goal that he has set himself and because he enjoys a good fight (as every good Cockney does) he rolls up his sleeves as he goes on his wa; sakes sure for himself that he, gets through.
herbert Morrison is a man of his own generation but in himself he the shape of generations to come. Generations, though in which there will be no' underprivileged because there will be no. privilege. Genera~ tons in which will be no soul destroying poverty because there will "His outstanding achievement is the reorganization and unification of London Transport. The amalgamation of bus underground and tramway service under one public body—the London Passenger Transport Board, "To give you some idea of the size of: the. trifle: carried by this ganization It has been estimated that In one day' (in normal times) two anda half times the total population of Norway was carried in its vehicles. (7% million people.)
"Ag Minister of Transport he re~ organized the passenger buy service all over the country so as to cut out wasteful competition, "Hforbert, Morrison's success ay an "administrator is largely due to three things:
"Ho goes for the big thing and Jet the end control the means: Ho hi the art of communteating his own onerly to his subordinates; he Is free and Knows how to free others from the. vice of mistaking the interest of the process for the Importance of the end: in other words he doesn't let Mimselt or anyone working for him get tangled up in red tape.
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