A s A result of the return to power in 1945 of a Labour Government pledged to large measures of nationalization and physical planning, Britain is now confronting a series of new and difficult problems of public administration in these spheres of activity. The field covered by the Government's nationalization policy extends broadly to the fuel, power, and transport industries and the Bank of England; the possible inclusion of part of the iron and steel industry hangs uncertainly in the balance. The construction and development of new towns is a novel enterprise which falls into a special category of its own. The transfer to national ownership of the hospitals relates to a social service rather than to an economic undertaking, and hence falls outside the scope of this article. It would need to be considered in relation to the new national

The Administration of Nationalized Industries in Britain