CIVIL SERVANTS
It is no doubt another sign of the times that there should be criticism both in and out of Parliament of civil servants as well as of Ministers, says the "Manchester Guardian." Twentyfive years ago there were those who feared that a door, in the Gladstonian phrase, had been opened when the present Prime Minister praised in Parliament the work of Sir Graeme Thomson, of the Admiralty, for, it was said, if civil servants were to be publicly commended, could they not also be publicly criticised instead of being covered by the general responsibility of their political chiefs? Now the time seems to have come for criticism, even if general rather than particular. The immunity has lasted since the eightcen-fifties. when the system of examination took the place of patronage and it became the proud boast c: the Civil Service that it was. the best in the world.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 54, 31 August 1940, Page 10
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150CIVIL SERVANTS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 54, 31 August 1940, Page 10
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