PEACE CELEBRATIONS
"NO DAMPER."-
• A suggestion made to the Minister of Internal Affairs this morning by a member of a deputation was that the Government should make available for a permanent Peace 'Memorial (such as a National Art; Gallery) the money proposed, to be'spent by way of subsidy on the coet of. temporary peace celebrations.- — ■--
Mr. Russell promptly discouraged the suggestion... .He., said that though the British people might be undemonstrative till victory was won, they were human, and would like to express their feelings, at the proper time. The Government had no wish '• to put a damper on such Tejoicing. Therefore subsidies for celebrations would be granted to local bodies, whether the money used by those bodies came from ordinary revenue or from private contributions. ,
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 37, 14 February 1919, Page 8
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126PEACE CELEBRATIONS Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 37, 14 February 1919, Page 8
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