DETERRENT TO WAR
ARMISTICE REMEMBRANCE. CENOTAPH CEREMONY DEFENDED. London, Nov. 14. The description of Dr. A. Salter, Labour M.P. for Bermondsey, of the Cenotaph ceremony as “a mockery attended chiefly by sensation-seekers,” is arousing angry comment. “The sooner the humbug at the Cenotaph is stopped, the better,’’ said Dr. Salter. “The service would have been abandoned years ago only the War Office does not want it abolished. They are flooded with recruits during the week following Armistice Day.” Recruiting headquarters deny that the Armistice Day celebrations stimulate recruiting.
“Once the people become fed up with remembrance of the last war they will get an appetite for a fresh one,” said Sir lan Hamilton. “No greater deterrent to war can be imagined than the exhibition of wounded ex-servicemen. Scotland, where I am president of the British Legion, strikes me as clinging desperately to Armistice Day observance in order to impress the youth of the country with the horrors of war.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 7
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