Statue of Liberty of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service. Public access to the balcony around the torch has been barred for safety since 1916. According to the National Park Service, the idea for the Statue of Liberty was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and a prominent and important political thinker of his time. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between de Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in
Statue of the Viscount Slim, London for the statue is in the collection of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. The inscriptions on the Portland stone pedestal were carved by David Kindersley. They read as follows: A further inscription wrapping around step below the pedestal gives the names of places connected with the Burma Campaign: At the back of the statue's self-base are inscribed the name of the sculptor, , and the foundry: . Statue of the Viscount Slim, London The statue of William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim in Whitehall, London, is a work of 1988–93 by the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones. It is one of three