STIR IN CIVIL SERVICE
Press Assn.
Dismissals Follow Order By Inlelligence
By Telegraph
-Copyrighi
Received Friday, 11.15 a.m. LONDON, March 27. On the orders of M.15 (military intelligence) , two young women civil servants have been dismissed, the transfer of two scientific civil servants to important new duties has been eouritermanded and the nomination of a scientific temporary -civil servant to a ■ permanent post cancelled, says the Evening Standard. One of the scientist's was to have been transferred to special work connected with atomic energy, and the other to work associated with the Control Commission in Germany. Mr. L.A.C. Herbert, general secretary of the Institution of ProfesSional Civil Servants, said : "We have tried to get information from the Government, but it has been refused, so we are taking further action." Mr. L. C. White, general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association, said that no reasons had been given for the dismissal of the two women. M.15 had never given the reasons nor put its orders in writing.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 March 1947, Page 5
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