150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, statue in London
Feb. 12, 1959 - The Prime Minister lays a Wreath on the Statue of Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square: This morning, Mr. Macmillan, the Prime Minister, laid a wreath on the statue of Abraham Lincoln, to mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. The bronze statue stands in Parliament Square and in a replica of one in Chicago it was offered to the British nation during the first World War by the British-American Peace Centennial Committee and was errected in 1921. Photo Shows After laying the wreath on the Lincoln statue in Parliament Square this morning Mr. Macmillan makes a speech on the right is Mr. Selvyk Lloyd the Foreign Secretary and Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the opposition
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