MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Way whether he can state in what years respectively the following officers passed the final examination at the Staff College—namely, General Lord Roberts, General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, General French, General Macdonald, and Colonel Lord Dundonald.
§ *MR.BRODRICKNone of the officers named passed through the Staff College.
§ *Mr. BRODRICKThere is no law in the mind of the War Office which suggests that much learning maketh a man mad, but it is possible for a man to be successful even if he has passed through the Staff College.