Great War: Centenary Commemoration Debate

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Great War: Centenary Commemoration

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Transport: Penzance and Isles of Scilly Ferry Service
Tuesday 22nd March 2011

(13 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Dykes Portrait Lord Dykes
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My Lords—

Lord Campbell of Alloway Portrait Lord Campbell of Alloway
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My Lords, having had to take part in that war, may I suggest that the last thing we should celebrate is its commencement? We should celebrate only those who in the end, with the help of the United States, got us out of it. Commencement is no great celebration—not for me.

Lord Astor of Hever Portrait Lord Astor of Hever
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My Lords, I take my noble friend’s point. The main celebrations will be on the centenary of the end of the First World War, which was 1918.

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