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Another half-year course, Government 42, deals with the development and the role of the civil service in the modern state. Economics 18c, a continuation of 18b, is titled Economic Aspects of war and Defense, available to men whether or not they have had 18b...
...daylong session Parliament debated an amendment to Regulation 18B that would have allowed anyone held by the Home Secretary to appeal to an "independent tribunal." Defending 18B, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison said: "Unpleasant as this regulation is, obnoxious as it is to British tradition, obnoxious as it is to me (I do not like this regulation; nobody would wish to maintain it just for the fun of the thing), it is vital to the security of the country in time...
...vocal opposition pointed out that although Secretary Morrison's actions under 18B were supposedly subject to an advisory committee, he had opposed their advice 90% of the time. Laborite Samuel Sydney Silverman called the absolutism of the Home Secretary's powers equal to that of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...
Said London Daily Mirror Columnist Cassandra: "The rank & file of the legal profession are solid in their hostility toward 18B. Lord Atkin's historic dissent becomes more apparent in its greatness. . . . We are putting plenty in pawn . . . and I for one don't like either the pawnshop or the pawnbroker...
Harris, known affectionately as "Ski More, gives the popular Economics 18b on war and defense...