Britons in Germany Resent Circular Alleging Immorality
(N.Z.P. A.—Special—Copyright.) Recd. 7 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 way addressed to all single men and women commissioned officers, and was signed by Brigadier C. T. Edwards, officer in charge of administration. The memorandum drew ttention to frequent allegations that it was "not an uncommon" practice for Control Commission personnel to bring persons of the opposite sex into their billets to spend the night, and said that while these sweeping allegations wei’e by no means acccepted. it was necessary to acknowledge that a 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 are reported to have angrily torn it up.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 3 October 1947, Page 5
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