§ 3. Sir A. V. Harveyasked the Minister of Works whether he is yet in a position to make a further statement 3 regarding the memorial to Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Viscount Trenchard.
§ Mr. MolsonI have now received the report of the Committee which I appointed to advise me on the memorial. The Committee has unanimously recommended that Mr. William McMillan should be commissioned to make a bronze statue of Lord Trenchard, that the statue should be sited in the gardens to be laid out on the river frontage of the new Air Ministry building in Whitehall, and that Mr. McMillan should work in conjunction with Sir Albert Richardson, who has very kindly offered to design the pedestal for the statue.
I accept these recommendations and thank the Committee for its work. I should like to pay tribute particularly to the late Lord Templewood, the Chairman of the Committee, whose own distinguished career included three periods as Secretary of State for Air. It was only a few days before his death that he signed the report making these recommendations for a fitting memorial to Lord Trenchard.
§ Sir A. V. HarveyIs my right hon. Friend aware that his statement will give great satisfaction to both past and present members of the Royal Air Force, and the public as a whole, in view of the fact that it is a recognition of the very great services rendered by Lord Trenchard to this country?
§ Mr. MolsonI am much obliged to my hon. and gallant Friend for what he has said.