ATTACK ON BUREAUCRACY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 4

ATTACK ON BUREAUCRACY

Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England, is writing a book which will probably bo published in the late autumn dealing in a most emphatic manner with the growing encroachments of bureaucracy in our public life, states the "Daily Mail." On many occasion recently Lord Hewart has deplored "the restless encroachment of the arrogant pretensions of bureaucracy in our midst." Sir Ernest Benn, who is publishing the book, said that it will be fully documented and will deal with the whole question in a technical as well aa in a popular manuer. He added: Lord Hewart is simply concerned in this, that wo have been building up democracy for ton centuries and at the end fiijd it not there at all but in the hands of the bureaucrats. In a recent speech, at the Manchester Reform Club, Lord Hewart refused to accept the "heresy" that a Lord Chief Justice was condemned. to a life-long and compulsory silence upon affairs of State. Last month at the Lord Mayor's dinner to the judges, he said ironically: "I seem to gather from the usual sources of information that the inhabitants of these islands are within measurable distance of an El Dorado, where there will bo no judges "at all. In those Isles of the Blest all controversial questions will be decided in the third-floor back of some Government Department."