HC Deb 24 March 1919 vol 114 cc40-1
90. Lieutenant - Colonel A. MURRAY

asked the President of the Board of Education whether a certain number of officers; of the United States Army awaiting repatriation are to undergo courses of study at English universities; and, if so, whether he will give the House a general outline of the arrangements that have been made in this connection?

Mr. HERBERT FISHER

I understand that the Army Educational Commission of the American Young Men's Christian Association, in concert with General Headquarters of the United States Armies in France, have made arrangements under which a number of selected officers of the United States Armies in France, being men of at least two years' college standing or graduates whose university courses were interrupted by the War, will be sent on detached service up to 30th June of this year in order that they may attend universities in the United Kingdom. The officers concerned will receive their full military pay, and will themselves pay the fees for the university courses which they attend.