The Prime Minister, in an interview with an Australian journalist,
has explained his reasons for summoning the Empire War Council. The Premiers of the Dominions, and a representative of India, have been called to London, not to hold an ordinary Conference, but to sit in the War Cabinet and deal with " all general questions affecting the war." " Nothing affecting the Dominions, the conduct of the war, or the negotiations of peace will be excluded " from this special Council. Tho Dominions have raised great armies for the Empire, and, said Mr. Lloyd George, they must " have a say, and a real say, in determining the use to which these armies are to be put." lie was most anxious that " during the last and most trying phase of the war the British Empire may present to the world an absolutely United front." The Premier declined to enter into the great problems of Imperial organization that must face us after the war, but he declared that " the peoples of the Empire will have found a unity in the war such as has never existed before—a unity not only in history but of purpose," and that there mast be some change of system.
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