But the question that sent the whole Conservative Party into
a tumult concerned the behaviour of the inspector of schools who when visiting St. Paul's School; Choritonron-Medlock, Manchester, reproved a little girl for having stated in an essay that England was the finest country in the world and further admonished the teacher for having taught her old fashioned Im- perialism." Sir Gerald Hurst, who put the question, demanded disciplinary action. Mr. Stanley had ob- viou sly no idea of the depth. of feeling on the matter and sought to dismiss the affair as an unfortunate casual remark of the inspector which " was not intended as a reproof either to the teacher or the Child." Mt the back bench Tories would' have none of that and stormed and raged as if it were an issue of Team and war. Sir Gerald Hurst actually tried to move the adjournment of the House on the question, but the Speaker declined to admit that under the rules of the House it could be put forward as a definite matter of urgent public importance.,"
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