CENOTAPH CEREMONY
LABOUR MAN'S ATTACK
RESENTMENT ROUSED
LONDON, 17th November,
The description by Dr. Salter, .Labour M.P. for Bermondsey, of the Cenotaph ceremony as "a mockery attended chiefly by sensation-seekers," is arousing angry comment.
Dr. Salter said: —"The sooner the humbug at the Cenotaph is stopped, the better. The service would have been abandoned years ago only the War Office (Joes not want it abolished. They aro 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 to the "Star." "No greater deterrent to war can be imagined than the exhibition of wounded ex-service men. Scotland, where I/am president of the British Legion, strikes mo 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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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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159CENOTAPH CEREMONY Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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