Read The Words

In this weeks דברי שיח they printed some questions posed to Rav Chayim about Talmud Torah and his short (כדרכו בקודש) answers.
These were some of the questions which I'm noting for he contradicts a Briskor Rav.  I don't know if this is a מחלוקת יסודי how to view תורה שבעל פה after its been written down or a local debate.

In עובדות והנהגות לבית בריסק pg. 147 it recounts:

                                        And in volume 3 of the same sefer it adds more detail:

As an aside, in the same email that I get the דברי שיח from they had this picture. 

HaRav Eliezer Silver (R) with HaRav Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro (Rav of Kovno/author of Dvar Avrohom) Zichronam L'Vracha taken in 1922