THE W.R.A.F. CLEARED.
MISS PENNANT CENSURED. London, Dec. 8. The report of the House of Lords Committee on the Douglas-Pennant case is a most drastic document. It scathingly emphasises the finding that the charges of immorality in women's camps were unfounded, and also finds that Miss Douglas-Pennant's charges of intrigue were unfounded.
The committee's report pillories Miss Douglas-Pennant as a "woman mucli impressed with her own importance, very reckless in imputations upon others, and unable to work with others."
The story on which she built her charges,,which was "the substratum for a vast superstructure of allegations of immorality, connivance, and encouragement," is contemptible, and she deserves the gravest censure.
[Miss Violet Douglas-Pennant, aftsr being removed from- her position as commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force, made charges that her dismissal had been secured by means of intrigue iri high places, and also asserted that flagrant immorality existed in the camps
of the W.R.A.F. A committee was set up by the House of Lords to investigate these charges, and after hearing evidence, found that (he charges were without foundation.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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179THE W.R.A.F. CLEARED. Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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