ABSTRACT
During the third autumn of the war, the new president was working himself into the task of negotiating with the interested parties in order to remove the main obstacles to educational reconstruction. The furore which had been stirred up by the restrictions placed on the circulation of the Green Book was hardly a happy omen for the future, but R.A. Butler was anxious to press ahead with the reform of the system as rapidly as possible. Holmes suggested at the beginning of September that even with the best will of everyone concerned, it would probably not be possible to get to the legislative stage by the autumn of 1942. The representatives of twenty-nine associations of teachers, local authorities and others had been invited to the Board to discuss the Green Book suggestions. The presence of all the principal assistant secretaries would be necessary at these meetings, so they would have to be spaced out if the ordinary work of the Department were not to come to a standstill.[ 1 ]
