WAR MEMORIAL FLOWER.
THE PGPPY INAPPROPRIATE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 14, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 14. General Sir G. M. MacDonogh, when unveiling a war memorial at Windsor, expressed regret that the poppy had been chosen to commemorate the fallen. Tt is a pagan flower, representing oblivion. He said; “The last thing we want to do is to forget those who made the supreme sacrifice.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1921, Page 5
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68WAR MEMORIAL FLOWER. Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1921, Page 5
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