The Civil Service Board of Inquiry appointed by the Prime
Minister to inquire into statements made in the case of Ironmonger v. Dyne affecting Civil Servants issued a long Report on Monday. They found that Mr. Gregory, Mr. O'Malley, and Lt.-Commander Maxse acted -" in a manner inconsistent with their obligations as Civil Servants," namely, by speculating between 1922 and 1926 in the foreign exchanges. Upon this finding the Secretary of State- for Foreign Affairs has dismissed Mr. Gregory, permitted Mr. O'Malley to resign and inflicted a loss of seniority with a severe reprimand upon Lt.-Commander Maxse. The Board's Report, with which we deal in a leading article, is partly a document of a judicial nature, leading inevitably to the severe sentences, and partly a fine statement of the very high standard severely exacted from Civil Servants. Incidentally the Report throws more light than has before been vouch- safed from official quarters upon the handling of the Zinovieff letter in October, 1924.
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