27 OCTOBER 1923, Page 18

THE CENOTAPH AND THE CABINET.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Curls.

Szn,—I see that it has required two Cabinet meetings to decide finally whether the Memorial Service for those who gave their lives in the War shall or shall not be held this year at the Cenotaph. I trust that another Cabinet meeting may soon be called to decide whether or not we are content to sacrifice on the altar of a pusillanimous expediency every- thing for which those lives were freely offered.—I am, Sir, &c.,