ABSTRACT
The Civil Service which functioned so remarkably in the first World War was fashioned for a society the foundations of which were, in fact, destroyed in the War they helped so largely to win. The professional soldiers at the War Office, and nearly all the professional sailors who formed the Board of Admiralty were, both of them, above all. A considerable percentage of teachers, both men and women, was either half-trained, made most really able young men and women think of teaching as among the least desirable careers open to them when the choice came to be made. In Roosevelt Administration were great adventures afoot, and most of the young men who went there were filled with the sense that they were part of them.
