ABSTRACT
We are glad to 1eam that sanction has been given by the War Cabinet to the proposal put forward by Sir Alfred Mond, the First Commissioner of Works, to establish a National War Museum, as announced in The Museums Journal for April, and that a committee has been formed to carry it into effect. The First Commissioner ofWorks will act as Chairman ofthe committee, and will have as his colleagues: Sir Martin Conway, as Director-General; Commander C. C. Wa1cott, as the representative of the Admiralty; Mr. B. B. Cubitt, assistant-secretary of the War Office, as the representative of that Department; Colonel J. R. Stansfield, the chief technical officer of the Department of Munitions Inspection, as the representative ofthe Ministry ofMunitions; Mr. lan Ma1colm, M. P.; Professor C. W. C. Oman, Chichele Professor of Modem History, Oxford; and Mr. Charles J. Ffoulkes, curator of the Tower of London Armouries, who will act as curator and secretary.
