§ 27. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Secretary of State for War what are the reasons for the instructions by the Army Council to those responsible for the programmes of military tattoos forbidding the presentation of episodes illustrating modern warfare?
§ Mr. SHAWThe Army Council considered that the memories of the Great War were too vivid and too recent to permit of representation, in pageant or tableau, of incidents connected with it.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYIs my right hon. Friend aware of the recent great popularity of most realistic war plays, and does he not think that the public are entitled to see the heroic deeds of our Army in recent years instead of only those relating to long ago?
§ Mr. SHAWI can consider and have considered all that, but I cannot possibly agree to this demand, which is quite the opposite of other demands that I receive that no military display of any kind should be given.