analyzing the causes of the defeat of 1940, reads the Marc Bloch , 70 years ago. Any resemblance to contemporary situations can not be coincidental.
Some earlier systems [governments] had kept several large public bodies that they were far from head closely. Without doubt, considerations of party not wanting to intervene, often enough, in the selection of team leaders. Whichever way the wind blew at the time, they imposed designations were rarely the happiest. But the recruitment base was almost exclusively corporate.
Asylum favorite son of notable, the School of Political Science peopled with his students embassies, the Court of Auditors, the State Council, the Inspectorate of Finance. The École Polytechnique, which will build the benches are for life, the bonds of a wonderful solidarity, not only provide the staffs of the industry and it gave access to these careers of engineers state, where advancement obeys the laws of a quasi-mechanical automation. Universities, by means of a whole set of boards and committees, is co-opted almost entirely themselves, not without some dangers for the renewal of thought, that the present system has, temporarily, he said, abolished . [...]
The scheme had he right or wrong in respecting these ancient corporations? It can hold forth to the eye. Some will say, stability, tradition of honor. The other, to which I confess tilt, replied: routine, bureaucracy, arrogance collective. [...]
certainly would have been better promote, through grants, access to all administrative functions and refer to preparations universities, by broad general education system is the strength of British Civil Service .
Marc Bloch, strange defeat The , 1940 (pp. 191 and 192 of the Folio edition).
(Readers resident in countries where legislation on copyright is not as absurdly protective in France can find an electronic version of the book on Free Ebooks Free . PP are cited. 158 and 159 of the PDF version.)
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