IMMORALITY ALLEGED
BRITISH CONTROL STAFF IN GERMANY MEMBERS’ VIGOROUS PROTESTS N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Oct 2 Berlin reports state that vigorous protests followed- the circulation of a memorandum among the British Control Commission staff threatening disciplinary action against officials found guilty of immorality, and alleging that loose moral standards prevailed among a proportion of them. The memorandum was addressed to all single men and women commissioned officers, and signed by Brigadier C. T. Edwards, officer in charge of administration. The memorandum drew attention to frequent allegations that it “was not an uncommon” practice for C9ntrol Commission personnel to bring persons of their opposite sex into their billets to spend, the night, and said that while these sweeping allegations were by no means accepted, it was necessary to acknowledge that the foundation for them existed “ in the action of a small minority.” Members of the control staff immediately protested against the memorandum, and many of them were reported to have angrily torn it up.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26582, 3 October 1947, Page 5
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