Patrick Gowans is a former senior officer who pursued a business career after his military service. One of his junior colleagues, Milly Yeo, remembers an incident that, although minor, has stayed with her as a telling example of principled behaviour. It concerned the board that Gowans chaired and to which she was secretary. The external auditor had requested the minutes of one of the meetings in which, coincidentally, the board had been highly critical of that auditor. Given that those remarks were recorded in the minutes, some board members suggested that the offending paragraph should be
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