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THE PLACING

OF WREATHS

ON FOREIGN WAR MEMORIALS.

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3. The Cabinet had before them a Memorandum

by the First Lord of the Admiralty, the

Secretary of State for War and the Secretary of State for Air (Paper C.P.-173 (28)) repre-

senting that the time had now come when

probably in all the countries involved in

the Great War the general feeling would be in

favour of discontinuing the practice of

placing wreaths on foreign war memorials and

official participation in all such ceremonies

abroad; suggesting that November 11, 1928,

the tenth anniversary of the Armistice, should

be the last occasion of such participation; and

proposing that this country should take the

initiative now and propose through diplomatic

channels that a definite agreement on the se

lires should be reached between all the allied

and associated countries.

The question was postponed until the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs could be present.

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