HAIG'S WIDOW
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. ·' MONDAY, JULY
1937.
REFUSES
TO BE AT STATUE UNVEILING OR
WRATH FROM THE CLOUDS-More than 70 non-combatants, including women and children, were killed in Barcelona, Spain, when seven Rebel bombing planes roared over the city and drop- ped bombs, Above, searchers are exploring wreckage for the dend and injured. This is one of the terrifying chapters written during Spain's civil war, which is hardly a year old.
British Roman Catholics Stirred By Sir John
Simon's Ban
London, June 21. Titles Act of 1851 penalties were im- IR John Simon's refusal posed for the assumption of titles. SIR
ranks, precedents or jurisdictions as British Home Minis- not conferred by the sovereign. The ter to present a "loyal ad-subsequent act of 1871 repeated the dress" from the Roman penalties while leaving the legal ban untouched. Territorial designations
were
Catholic hierarchy in Eng of Roman Catholic prelates land on the occasion of the coronation has raised a stir in Roman Catholic circles here.
conferred by the Pope, not by the King, and so was the ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to which these prelates
Iny claim.
if the
Says Memorial
To Field Marshal Is "Monstrous"
W
London, June 17.
ON
WHILE yesterday Office of Works men, protected by temporary barriers from the passing traffic, were measuring up the site in the middle of Whitehall where the Earl Haig statue is to be erected for unveiling before the end of this year, Countess Haig, the Field Marshal's International Exhibition In Paris, widow, was telling the News Chronicle:
"I'm not going to attend the unveiling ceremony. Nothing would drag me there. The statute is monstrous. "My husband would, I'm sure, not want me to have anything
In Portugal's' pavillon at the
this great statue of President Salazar is to be scen.
to do with it. The whole style of the thing is wrong--the horse, M.P.S
the figure, the fact that there is no hat.
LORDS "APATHETIC"
In January, 1930, It was on-
"I saw the statue myself last July.nounced that Mr. Hardiman had be- One of the most noticeable things is gun work on a second model; that that although my husband is shown £450 had been spent so far, and riding with a light rein the horse, that the sculptor was now to have by the attitude of its head, is pulling an extra £500. like the dickens.
"They showed the model (the
second one) in the House of Lords that's how it got past. The Lords are apathetic. If it had been in the Commons it might have been dif- ferent.
"When the statue was finished the Office of Works told me there
Model No. 2, a bigger-scale model,
mons in January, 1931.
Said Lndy Halg: "It's awful. Before, the horse
was too
Urge Safety'
In Factories
concerned in the House of
was shown in the House of Com-MEMBERS of all parties were simply Commons last month about the increasing number of accidents in factories and workships, par- ticularly among the young.
fat.
Now it's too thin."
MODEL NO. 3,
In the second outburst the word "camel" was supplanted by the
Dangerous machines, the tendency
were some fears lest it might be words "giraffe" and "rocking-horse among some workers to be reckless,
damaged in transit. I said I sin- cerely hoped i would be smashed
to smithereens"
There were objections to the "theatrical" cloak Lord Haig was wearing.
But the committee announced that So a controversy which has shaken
was passing this statue "with the country at intervals since Parlis-it ment first voled £7,000 for the certain-modifications" statue in February, 1928, breaks outing Model No. 3). again.
and
(necessitat-
Thereupon a new roof was built on to Mr. Hardiman's studio in Malda Vale and he set to work on
safety loads, and even slippery floors were discussed at length.
Amendments were moved to the
Factories Bill by Liberal and Labour members, with the intention of im- proving the safety machinery of the BIL
They were withdrawn after ag- surances had been given by Sir Samuel Hoare (Home Secretary)
It is from the third model, pro- duced by the sculptor, Mr. Alfred F. Hardiman, Rome scholarship winner the Anal job. In 1935 It was an-ihat he had the subject very much nounced in Parlament that the cost would now be £10,700.
The statue, now being cast in the machinery sections, will stand on a 13ft. basc, will measure 13ft. from the horse's hooves to the crown of rider's head, and will weigh 3 to 4 tons.
Royal Academy, that the statue has The casting in now been made. bronze is undersoloxi to be about three-quarters finished.
DIARY OF THE DISPUTE The diary of the dispute began with an objection to the site by the They Westminster City Counell. said a statue on the spot suggested: -in the centre of Whitehall, be- tween the Scottish Office and the Royal, United Services Institution-- would interfere with traffic. The Government (in November, 1820) put- its foot down. Whitehall, they said. It must be.
In 1929 a committee headed by Lord D'Abernon rejected eques- Lord Hair sub- trian models of mitted by Mr. albert Ledward hir. W. McMillan and re- mmended
the model of Mr. Hardiman.
As soon as photographs of the f
model were published a tempest of criticism and opposition began to
of Works.
WHAT THEY SAID
Among them: "Burly swashbuck- theler seated on a carthorse," "Horse
BRITAIN
Is Biggest
Exporter Of BEER
Berlin, June 17.
utmos!.
of the Bill to the
INSTRUCTION
One amendment, moved by Mr, W. A. Burke (Lab.; Burnley), prohibited the employment at any machine of any young person unless he had been fully instructed in the dangers. Under the Bill a similar precaution is applied to machines listed as den- gerous by the Home Secretary.
Miss Wilkinson (Lab., Jarrow) thought the chief difficulty arose from older people becoming so ac- customed to dangerous machines that they saw no danger in. them and did not exercise enough vigilance over
persons who were young accustomed to them.
Mr.
Geoffrey Lloyd Home Omec)
(Undercretary,
un-
claimed that the powers in the Bill for ensuring the safety of young persons were in their most effective form and he could assure the House that the Home Secretary intended to use those powers to the full.
SLIPPERY FLOORS
It is therefore argued that not on-blow about the heads of the sculp- According to to-day's Univer- ly was Sir John Simon's attitude for, the committee and Mr. George.
Lansbury, then First Commissioner GREAT BRITAIN is the se, the Roman Catholic weekly, legally necessary-because
world's largest exporter| It would not merely be a question "Sir John Simon, like his pre- address had been accepted it would
specifying some particularly Lady Halg declared the design was of beer, states the business of
dangerous machine. The Home decessor, declared that he would have constituted ofcial recognition be 'unable to submit to the King of an Illegal claim-but that the fo- "terrible. Artists, eminent soldiers, report for the year 1936-37 Secretary intended to issue lists of the German export machines where danger was likely. an address wherein these arch-man Catholic hierarchy knew per-British Legion spokesmen and "men-
feelly well what the legal situation in-the-street" hurled other descrip- of bishops and bishopa. were refer-5. It is added that an easy way out lens.
breweries. red to as Catholic archbishops could have been found by merely
After Britain come Germany and bishops, and in signatures to emitting the signatures from
loyalty address, as had been done fattened on turnips,** "Horse like and Japan. The export figures which use is made of territorial in the case of many other similar nothing Halg ever rode," "A came" for the year, according to the
Even Lord Darling was inspired to designations which cannot be re-documents.
write some verse on the subject.report, are:-
Great Beltain 8,308,000 gallons A similar tissurance was given on cognized in official communica-
("Why mould for him such laboured
Cermany .... 3,270,000 gallons the question of slippery floors after Japan Mr. Hardiman replied: "It's a
5,217,000 gultons storles had been told of girls being tions." "
Britain's beer export increased by scalded through slipping when syrabolic horse, It's not meant to
0.70 per cent, in 1930, that of Ger-carrying boiling jam and of similar look like a real horse."
nt the many by 10.49 per cent. Japan's tell accidents due to slippery floors. Conferchces were hold Omce of Works, the Prime Minister by 1.93 per cent.-Reuter. was consulted; on September 11,
The Universe declares this atti- tudc
be to
"amazing," adding: "There cannot be hint of any criticism of His Majesty.. om- cialdem alone is to blame."
As to this last point lawyers point
out that under the Ecclesiastical
“
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The use of the word "Catholic"
bronze because the objected to Anglican community claims to bo part of the Catholle church, whereas the address attributes this quality to the Roman church only.
A similar dispute arose over the 1920, Lady Halg with Sir Herbert loyal address presented by the hier-Lawrence, Halg's Chief of Staff in archy at the time of the George V 1918, attended a meeting with Mr. Jublice.
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He had been impressed with the for- midable number of accidents to young persons and regarded it as his duty to do everything possible to reduce the number,
On this assurance the amendment I was withdrawn.
The debate was to be continued.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
"Night Must Call" (King's Theatre,| "Maytime" (Majestie Theatre, to- to-day), MagnlDcent piece of acting day).-Gorgeous musical
romance
and
by Robert Montgomery makes this done in M-G-M's best style
as memorable a picture as it was a featuring that entertaining couple MacDonald and Eddy play which took London, and later Jeanette
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