ME DOUGLAS-PENNANT CASE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] .SIR,—Let me congratulate you upon your sense of justice in allowing Miss Douglas-Pennant to state her case in your columns. Last spring the editor of the Manchester Guardkin asked me to investigate the records of the case, and I spent some weeks in examining all the available published docu- ments. It was a difficult task, reminding me of the investi- gations into the Dreyfus case nearly thirty years ago. But after long cOnsideration of the evidence I concluded that a most, serious wrong had been done to a public servant of admitted capacity and unblemished reputation, who to this day remains unaware of the charge which led to her sudden and irregular dismissal. My statement of the case and my 'conclusions appeared in the Manchester Guardian of last ,June 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th. Those most intimately 'connected with Miss Douglas-Pennant's dismissal have made Inc, reply, but I may still hope that English justice will demand ;a complete public enquiry such as France instituted in the Dreyfus case, though after similar delay.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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