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The promoters have so far seen no objection to having a kiosk and all the litter that will involve, 11 buses a day, a playground or crowds. They have no concept of the contemplation and special nature that should attach to a memorial—not that 23 fins sticking in the air could ever remind anyone of anything, let alone six million deaths. The quiet and contemplation that one perceives at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial, for example, or other memorials that I have visited around the world, or even the galleries in the Imperial War Museum, cannot exist here. It will be a little tourist attraction, surrounded by building works and litter. It will also be surrounded by the Millbank traffic, with buses of visitors to the memorial potentially conflicting with lorries for the building works, even before restoration and renewal get properly under way.