THE HAIG STATUE
Widow Will . Not Attond Unveiling OBJECTS TO DESIGN LONDON, June 17. When the national memorial to Earl Haig is unveiled at Whitehall toward the end of the year his widow will not be present. "I do not like the slatue," Lady Haig told'the Daily Mail. "The horse is monstrous and they have also depicted my husband with a soroll iu his \ kand. This is ridiculous as he always ■ carried a map. I am sure I am acting as my husband would have wishod. He would never have approved of the statue." The dee.ision follows eight yoars' r.ontrovcrsy about the design of the memorial.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 7
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