10. Duchess of ATHOLLasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that the President of the Board of Education has recently addressed the cadets of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich on the subject of the proposed Indian constitutional reforms; and whether he will give a similar opportunity to a critic of these proposals?
§ Mr. HACKINGI should be very sorry to take any step which imported any political flavour into the addresses given to the cadets of the Royal Military Academy. The arrangement of these addresses is a matter within the discretion of the commandant.
Duchess of ATHOLLIs it not the case that a political flavour has already been introduced by an address being given by a member of the Government on a Bill which has not yet become law?
§ Mr. HACKINGThe Noble Lady is misinformed. I am told by the commandant that there was no political flavour at all in the address.
§ Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOXIs it not monstrous that a protagonist of this Bill should be invited to give an address in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich at all?