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"The Age" Special Correspondent
in London
Their late Majesties King
James I and II and King Wil
liam III. were the subject of
cioss talk m the Commons, when
a scholarly member, Mr. Wilson
Harris, obiected to the statue of
what he desenbea as "that de
spicable soveicgn " James II ,
being ipplaced ncai the Admir
alty from wheie it was lemoved
during. the war.
Mr Wilson Hams suggested
the statue of James II be placed
in fc>t James s bquaie wneip
he could foi evei contemplate his
successor, William III." Mr.
NlohulsOn, a Consul vativti xiituu-
ULt | 1/MJ LLICU ' tw MIL WUIU lit.
spicable," pointing/ , out that
James II. had done much, for the
Rpval Navy, whereupon Sir Ron- -
aid Ross, member for London
derry, recalled that James U. had
besieged his- constituency, and
urged that the statue should re
main in store.
. Another Conservative member,
Mr. Walker Smith, thought the
statue should be: erected in
Whitehall "as a reminder to Min
isters of the Into in store for
those who tried to fetter the liber-
tics of the people.''.':
Mr. H. Berry (Labor) inter
jected:— "James I. will be re
membered for his ahsurd pamph
let against smoking tobacco,"
"And for exeouting the man who
introduced the filthy weed." re-
called Mr. Gnmme-Duncan, mem
ber for Perth and Kinross.
The seventeenth century, history
lesson concluded with a pun by
Mr.' Nicholson, who asked: — "Is
it not clear that the statues give
great pleasure to the spectator ?"
— the House laughing at hi neat
reference to the fact that Mr.
Wilson Harris is editor of the
"Spectator."
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