MEMORIALS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1927, Page 10

MEMORIALS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l noticed in the letter o£ your cmrespondent "Soldat," in reply to the views' ot a well-meaning.citizen in relation to the Massey Memorial, a bwS Vn denxnation of those who held and voiced r VI- dl, v«;s ent vfero on the WdCton" Soldiers' Memovial. As is well known S th» controversy waged over the quertiwof a silent or utihtarian memorial * Then later a b.gger jomt Bc hem« was mooted ' Howl ever, my purpose is not to go into X question of duly-authori B ed bodies at present maturing their schemes, but to remind ."Soldat" that many of us who took nfirtf f h°9e eaJ" y bear the maiks of war. Also, of the big civilian ot-km, and all are quite entitled to ask of any committee if it can see its way to ri,» w£ !l kter ™«™, no matter how belated. Now, "SoldatV official view of the unofficial, as the emanations of interfering busybodies, stamps him, with my unofficial stamp, as quite the wrong calibre of person to stand on the ground of delicate sentiment, with only an uncharitable thrust for those whose fine sentiment he either fail? to see or ignores.—l am, etc., in «. * , COSMO. 10th August .