IMPERIAL WAR MEMORIAL

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 7

IMPERIAL WAR MEMORIAL

LORD CHATFIELD’S SUGGESTION SUPPORT BY BRITISH NEWSPAPERS (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, January 13 Both •■The Times’’ and the "Daily Telegraph” give strong editorial *upport to Lord Chatfield’s suggestion In the House of Lords last night that the Government should consider the desirability of erecting an Imperial war memorial in London to honour all who died in the two 4tars for freedom. Lord Chatfield, who proposed that the Government should ascertain the feelings of the British Commonwealth and Empire on the matter, said the re-de-dication of the Cenotaph was not enough to convey to posterity the immensity of our national effort in the

Second World War or the high ideals that lay behind it. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Lord Hall), who replied, said the Government had decided that no scheme for en Imperial war memorial had yet been put forward which would make a wide enough appeal to the people not only of Britain but also of the ■ Dominions. India, and the colonies. If such a scheme emerged the Government would give it further thought. Both "The Times” and the “Doily Telegraph” say that in a matter of this kind the lead should come from the Government. “An Imperial war memorial in London. the heart of the Empire, which would commemorate the united effort of all its people is an idea to warm the imagination,” says the "Daily Telegraph.”