CIVIL SERVICE INQUIRY

Grey River Argus, 1 March 1928, Page 2

CIVIL SERVICE INQUIRY

The Zinovieff Affair

MACDONALD’S COMMENT. LONDON, February 28. The Times, commenting on the Civil Service inquiry, says: The report will be read with relief. It adds. It would not perhaps have been irrelevant if the Board had added that so persistent a state of affairs might have been expected to come under the notice of Gregory’s superiors and the Foreign Office. The Daily Telegraph draws attention to the meagrcncss of the salary of the Assistant Under Secretary, £l2OO to £l5OO a year. Its broad effect is no trace whatever can be found even by probing into the most unlikely chatter, of any general weakness in the observance of the high traditions of the Civil Service. There is no question of any instance of private use of official information. The editorial proceeds to condemn most strongly the conduct dislosed.

Mr MacDonald, in an interview with the Daily Herald, says: The report makes it ciear that the statement that the Zinovieff letter had been some time in the hands of the Foreign Office, and that I had not handled it, was untrue, as I said it was.