55 Major Anstmther-Grayasked the Secretary of State for War how many of the seven British Army officers who attended the United States Flash Burn manoeuvres have now returned to Europe in order to give a first-hand eye-witness account to British officers at regimental and battalion level.
§ Mr. J. R. H. HutchisonThe one Army officer who went from this country has returned and is preparing a report.
§ Major Anstruther-GrayWill my hon. Friend see that this Army officer does not merely prepare a report which may be the foundation of a paper issued several months hence but, on the contrary, that he gives first-hand eye-witness lectures, because that is the best way to teach these things?
§ Mr. HutchisonI should like to think about that, but it would be a little difficult, would it not, to ask one officer to give eye-witness lectures to the whole of the British Army. Somehow or other this information must be put out in writing as well
§ Major Anstruther-GrayIs it not a fact that seven officers from the British Army were invited to attend? Why could not more than one come back to this country?
§ Mr. HutchisonThe others are members of the British Army staff in Washington. It is best to wait and see what is contained in the reports provided by this officer and other observers and consider then what more we can do.