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Post-war Reconstruction

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On 6 June 1945 Gowers wrote to his son:

I am on the move all day now saying my goodbyes. I shall be very glad when Sunday comes and I can draw breath. … I haven’t any other job [than coal] at present except my school and hospital odds and ends. I was asked by the Secretary of State for Air to take on the chairmanship of a Commission to investigate and report on every aspect of the results of our bombing of Germany but I said no. I have had enough of bombing; I would sooner turn my mind to something more constructive.1

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  1. J. M. Lee (1977) Reviewing the Machinery of Government 1942–1952: An Essay on the Anderson Committee and its Successors (London: privately printed), p. 146. Lee records that the file is referred to in a letter written by Sir Edward Bridges in May 1949.

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  1. School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Ann Scott (Adjunct Professor)

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Scott, A. (2009). Post-war Reconstruction. In: Ernest Gowers. Understanding Governance series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244306_10

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