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...have read the article, "The Bureaucracy: Servant or Master?" in TIME, July 20. Although there are a number of built-in disclaimers and escape hatches in this piece, it is essentially based on the ancient, long-discredited spoils premise that both governmental policies and governmental functions can be properly and effectively executed only by political appointees. [It] makes much of the fact that during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations many positions were included in the civil service system by executive order . . . The great majority of all federal positions, always, have been brought under civil service by executive order. There...
...lean and elegant Englishman who divides his time between the sun-swept luxury of the Riviera and the box-hedged comfort of his country home in Kent. He has a pretty and helpful wife, and earns the income, as he puts it, of "a high-grade civil servant." He appears to be almost as much at home in society as in his studio, and is not averse to designing rugs, or painting occasional portraits of the great...
...Servant or Master...
Inertia in the Mass. The typical civil servant will not deliberately defy or sabotage clear orders from above. But, in the complexity of modern government, clear, sensemaking orders cannot be written from above without willing cooperation below. In the present state of the U.S. Government, the wafer-thin layer of political appointees at the top has great difficulty swinging the massive organization beneath. A Republican appointee with considerable experience in business and Government administration describes the inertia that faces many an Eisenhower executive: "He wants to do something that in business he would handle by a phone call...
...Servant of the Crown. On Norfolk Island, 870 miles off the Australian coast, the inhabitants were looking for one man to be their 1) forest ranger, 2) police force, 3) bailiff, 4) jailer, 5) examiner of livestock and slaughterhouses, 6) inspector of noxious weeds...