At the end of the inquiry into the dismissal of
Miss Violet Douglas-Pennant from the Women's Royal Air Force, the Chairman, Lord Wrenbury, made public certain immediate conclusions. These were that the accusations of immorality between Colonel Janson and Miss Glubb were untrue ; that the accusations of immorality at W.R.A.F. camps had been entirely unsupported by evidence ; and that the accusations against Colonel Bersey and General Livingstone that they desired a state of immorality to continue were supported by no evidence whatever. On the main subject of inquiry whether Miss Pennant was rightly or wrongfully dismissed, and whether the organization of the W.R.A.F was unsatisfactory, a Report has of course yet to be issued, but Lord Wrenbury entirely met the popular feeling of what was right and necessary in issuing the immediate conclusions of the Select Committee. A great and cruel injustice had been done to persons against whom hideous charges had been brought, although no evidence could be produced at the inquiry to support those °bargee,
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