He, at the head of things, and the chiefs of the Disposal Board under him, have refused to accept any financial reward.

One and all they deserted their businesses and slaved from morning to night in the national interests, and one and all they gave their services to the State.
What has been Lord Inverforth's reward from the public?
From first to last he has been attacked by a considerable section of the Press, and has been accused in Parliament of incredible waste and incorrigible stupidity.

Let it be supposed (I do not grant it for a moment) that he made mistakes, even very great mistakes, still, on the total result of his gigantic labours, does not the public owe him a debt of gratitude?
Has he not been an honest man at the head of a department where dishonesty had its chief opportunity?
Did he not strike a death blow at Germany when he secured, with a suddenness which ruined his rivals in the field, the wool-clip of the world?
Is there one man in these islands who thought for a moment that the overplus of stores would fetch a sum of L800,000,000?
I will say a word about Slough, which is still the favourite cry of Lord Inverforth's critics, who have held their peace about the "dumps" since the publication of the White Paper describing the sale of stores.
Slough was the work of the War Office.

It was begun badly.

Mistakes of a serious kind were made.