Air Ministry Official In "Purge"
Receive Priday, 7.20 p.m. LONDON, June 4. The general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association stated that Mr. E. Hicks who had ended his presidency of the Civil Service Clerical Association last week has been "purged by the Air Ministry and sent on special leave pending his reply to an allegation that he is a member of the Communist Party. "The Air Ministry has known for several nronths that Mr. Hicks was , a niemher of the Communist Party and the fact that action was delayed until his removal from the association presidency is regarded as significant, supporting the growing helief that the scope of the Civil Service purge is being extended beyond that which Mr. Attlee stated, and is app lying to all posts in the service Ministries iilled by members and associates of the Communist party." Mr. Hicks is employed as a high clerical officer in the contracts department.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1948, Page 5
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