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Evening Star, Issue 19803, 29 February 1928, Page 5

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THE CIVIL SERVICE INQUIRY LONDON PRESS COMMENTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 28.

(Received February 29, at 9 a.m.) ‘The Times,’ commenting on the Civil Service inquiry,_ says: “The report will be read with relief. Its broad effect is that no trace whatever can bo 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 disclosed, ami adds: “Tt would not perhaps have boon irrelevant if t.ie board had added that so persistent a state of affairs might have been expected to come under the notice of Gregory’s superiors at the Foreign Office.” The ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ draws attention to the meagreucss of the salary of the Assistant Under-Secretary—£l,2oo to £1,500 a year. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in an interview with the ‘Daily Herald, says. “The report makes it clear 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,”