A SPECTATOR 'S NOTEBOOK
THERE was no question about the opinion of the House of Com- mons about the proposed—indeed already decreed—destruction of German war memorials when the matter was raised in the House on Monday. Not a single member of the many who rained in supplementary questions had a word to say in favour of the new "directive," and the Minister concerned, Mr. John Hynd, who is popular with the House, had a rougher passage than he had pre- viously had to encounter. The subject is not dropped, for the member who raised ;he question on Monday gave notice that he would bring it up on an Adjournment Motion as early as possible., What is not easily comprehensible is why the British representation on the Allied Control Commission ever agreed to a decision which it was obvious would be repugnant to the great mass of decent Englishmen. There will be strong pressure to prevent the destruc- tion of any but erections which definitely "commemorate the Nazi party "—as memorials of the Kaiser's war plainly cannot—and I gather that among authorities in the British Zone there is the strongest disinclination to do anything in the matter at all.
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