Contemporary Art Society Report 1938-39
Contemporary Art Society REPORT 1958-9 THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY For the Acquisition of Works of Modern Art for Loan or Gift to Public Galleries President: LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN Chairman: SIR EDWARD MARSH, K.C.V.O., C.B., C . .M.G. Treasurer: THE HoN. ]ASPER RIDLEY 440 Strand, W.C.2 Joint Hon. Secretaries: LORD IVOR SPENCER-CHURCHILL g Chelsea Embankment, S.W.3 ST. JOHN HUTCHINSON, K.C. 3 Albert Road, N.W.I Committee: SIR EDWARD MARSH K.c.v.o., c.B., c.M.G. (Chairman) The Earl of Crawford and J. Maynard Keynes, c.B. Balcarres J.B. Manson Sir Muirhead Bone Ernest Marsh Miss Thelma Cazalet, M.P. The Hon. Jasper Ridley Sir Kenneth Clark, K.C.B. J. K. M. Rothenstein Samuel Courtauld Sir Michael Sadler, Sir A. M. Daniel, K.B.E. K.c.s.I., c.B. Campbell Dodgson, C.B.E. Earl of Sandwich A. M. Hind, o.B.E. Lord I vor Spencer-Churchill St. John Hutchinson, K.C. C. L. Stocks, c.B. Assistant Secretary: MR. R. C. IRONSIDE . Printed in England at The Curwen Press Speech by the Chairman at the Ninth Ordinary General Meeting of the C.A.S. held at the Tate Gallery on 18 April 1940 ' Ladies and Gentlemen, This is, I think, the fourth time it has been my duty to address you on this annual occasion. My second and third speeches were nothing but attempts to disguise the fact that they were the first one over again, for I had little to do but rehearse the objects of the Society, which were as simple and salutary and stale as the Ten Commandments, and apt to wear thin.
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