CURRENT SCANDALS • Sig,—One of the unfortunate results of the
extra- ordinary system of government prevalent in Britain is that it seems impossible to secure a proper in- vestigation on any subject where something has gone seriously wrong.
There arc the following matters which are fairly calculated to cause great uneasiness of mind among British citizens. There is the affair of the dismissal of Admiral Sir Dudley North and the refusal of the inquiry to which he is entitled by law. There is the shocking case of the Evans/Christie murders and trials. There is the affair of the Casement diaries, which is almost as bad as the Dreyfus case with its multiplicity of forged documents. There is the mystery of Commander Crabb and the Russian warships. There is the case of Dr. Adams, where surely the public is entitled to know how it came about that the statements given by the nurses on which the prosecution was based differed so widely from the entries made by these same women in the records kept by them at the time of the treatment of the patient.
There is also the question of the attitude of the Home Office in connection with false evidence given against the subject by police officers, which is a stand- ing disgrace.—Yours faithfully,
Previous page
