The National War Aims Committee has published for free dis-
tribution a useful pamphlet entitled Aims and Effort of the War : Britain's Case after Pour Years, which describes by quotation the Allies' war aims and the enemy's war aims, summarizes our was efforts as an Empire, and gives a brief account of the movement towards a League of Nations. Incidentally the pamphlet shows the need for a restatement of our war aims, for the Prime Minister's remark on January 5th last that we are not fighting " to destroy " Austria-Hungary or to " deprive Turkey of its capital " (rennet be reconciled with the desire of the Allies to free the Slays, Italians, and Rumanians under Austrian. rule and to make the straits into the Black Sea an international and neutral ohanneL We cannot at once preserve Austria-Hungary and free her subject races ; we cannot maintain Constantinople as the Turkish capital and yet place it under international control. Ambiguities of this sort should now be cleared away.
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