17 MAY 1935, Page 6

There is some resentment, I gather, in Government offices at

the method adopted to whip up subscriptions from civil servants to the Jubilee Trust Fund. Purely civil offices have circulated an appeal signed not only by Sir Warren Fisher of the Treasury, but also by eminent representatives of the three fighting services, whose raison d'être in this connexion is not quite obvious ; subscriptions are to be entered on an open list, and in at least one office it was suggested that a certain proportion of a day's pay should be given. There is nothing improper about this, of course, but more tactful methods could be imagined. Considerable irritation has to my knowledge been- caused, and neither irritation nor resentment is to be desired in connexion with the Jubilee Trust Fund.