We are given the answer to this question in the second
section of Chapter 6 when Bernard goes to the Director of Hatcheries and asks him to
confirm the travel permit that he needs to take Lenina to the reservations. After
narrating a tale about what happened when he took a date to a reservation (that as we
shall see will come back to haunt him later on in the story), he then turns on Bernard
and accuses of him of the "crime" you refer to in your
question:
"If
ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask
for your transference to a Sub-Centre - preferably
Iceland."
Thus we discover it
is Bernard's tendency to not maintain the proper standard of "infantile decorum" which
is so important in this society that gets him into trouble and leads the DHC to threaten
to transfer him.
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