OFFICIAL’S DISMISSAL
LONDON COMMISSIONER MINISTER'S STATEMENT (3 p.m.) LONDON, April 13. In a statement in the House of Commons on the dismissal of Sir Warren Fisher, the Minister of Home Security, Mr. Herbert Morrison, said that Sir Warren Fisher shared with other public servants an obligation to refrain from attacking the Minister to whom he was responsible. As Sir Warren Fisher refused to accept this position, his continuance in office was impossible. “In view of his refusal to modify his attitude I felt he had destroyed the confidence between us which was essential,” said Mr. Morrison.
The Minister of Home Security on April 1 terminated Sir Warren Fisher’s appointment as special commissioner for the London region following Sir Warren Fisher’s refusal to resign. Sir Warren Fisher, in a letter published in the Manchester Guardian, criticised Mr. Morrison’s admoriishment of the north-west regional officers for the use of transport petrol for footballers who journeyed to a match in a fire vehicle. The letter concluded: “If a simple mistake of judgment is to be handled with such Prussianism by a Minister of the Crown, what should be the fate of Ministers for the countless and most serious mistakes by them?”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20740, 15 April 1942, Page 5
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198OFFICIAL’S DISMISSAL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20740, 15 April 1942, Page 5
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