Diminution of my salary

There was the matter of my salary during the time I was Chairman and Director-General of Broadcasting to be settled.

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When I was suddenly moved to the SLBC, due to the events described in the chapter dealing with my period as Secretary to the Prime Minister, I was already on the maximum of the Secretaries scale. The question was, whether my salary was now to be diminished to that of a Chairman of a Corporation. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting did not resolve this matter during the brief period I served under that Ministry. I therefore issued instructions at the SLBC to pay me the Chairman's salary. I did not draw the Secretaries salary which I had been getting. This was of course financially disadvantageous to me. When in due course I took