The attendant in the main was besieged on Monday bya crowd of puzzled visitors who had searched the walls in vain for John B.
Souter's picture "The Breakdown, A great amount of explanation was necessary to convince them that it had been withdrawn on the request of the Colonial Office who disproved, from the Colonial standpoint, of the subject—a negro pla ug jazz for a nude white dancer. A photograph of the picture is displayed in the front hall do not know what I shall do with "The Breakdown" but the picture certainly will never be exhi ed again," Mr, John B. Souter state Tuesday.
I understand that persons converrant with the difficulties of the white population in the Colonies ud Dominions protested to the Pre-dent and Council of the Academy about Mfr. Souter's picture.
There was a consultation with the Colonial ceretary who, for reasons of State, advised the withdrawal of the picture. This was done So far as I am concerned" Mfr.
Souter stated "the whole question is closed. A lot of fuss has been made about a picture which would. not have raised an eyelid in Aberdeen, where I come from. There was no question of a problem involved. At he same time, the Academy's ex. planation is satisfactory to me. T ec my homily is capable of misinterpretation." sit Waterloo Bridge ance of the old Wa. built by John Rendity the close of the Napoleonic wars was ensured by the vote in the House of Commons Tuesday night The problem was thrashed out again upon a request from the London County Council for sanction to spend the first £100,000 of the sum required to destroy the old bridge ud build a new one at the spot.
The strongest opponent of the Sir John Simon, who "Waterloo Bridge ix not 4 municipal adjunct, but a nati monument"—the wonderful mon ment built by the nation to eon memorate the Napoleonic wai Would anybody," Sir John asked, dare to come to the House und ack to be allowed to pull down the Nelson Column or move the Cenotaph from Whitehall?" He nted out that, according to the County Council's' own special committee, the division of expert opinion as to the possibility of so ing the bridge is absolutely equal, and argued from this that the nation's own experts ought to decide.
After an exceedingly vigorous debate, the motion to refuse sanction for the expenditure was defeated by 62 votes, the figures being: For the motion 96; against, 158.
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