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The statement of the Minister of Works that the fate of the statue of General Gordon which used to stand in Trafalgar Square is under consideration is disturbing. Why should there be any kind of question? The statue was presumably, like others, removed for safety during the war. In the Ministry's own slow time it will presumably be replaced, as King Charles I is being. So at least everyone supposed. If not, what is to be the statue's fate, and who is to be put on the empty plinth? Some London effigies might well be dispensed with, but Gordon's is certainly not one of them. It may be that this statue is being displaced by the new memorial, on the north part of the square, to Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty.
If so, another place must clearly be found for it. JANUS.
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