As his successor in the position of minister of supply expressed himself about its organization, "it was so expedient and well adapted to the demands of the crisis situation that the whole thing could later be seen as self-evident".

[5] Gunnar Sträng was succeeded by Karin Kock who became Sweden's first female cabinet minister.

[6] In December 1949, Prime Minister Tage Erlander forced Kock to leave her ministerial post to become director general of Statistics Sweden.

She was not happy about the change and would have liked to stay, something Erlander had a hard time understanding, considering that her influence had been reduced to insignificance.

Erlander had instead wanted Axel Strand, the head of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, as minister of supply.