§ 36. Major CRAWFURDasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, if he will recommend to the authorities concerned that the present inscription in the Machine Gun Corps memorial at Hyde Park Corner should be replaced by the passage from the Psalms, "He hath scattered them that delight in war"?
§ Captain HACKING (forI must refer the hon. Member to the answer to his previous question on the subject of the inscription of this memorial. The First Commissioner regrets that he is unable to adopt the hon. Member's suggestion.
§ Major CRAWFURDIs the hon. and gallant Member aware that the reason given for this inscription by his predecessor was that it was to connect the monument with the figure of David on the top, and is he aware that the Psalm is also connected with the figure of David, and that in the meantime a good deal of indignation has been expressed to me over this matter from various parts of the Empire?