We need not waste many words over the Peace Debate
which took place in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The Pacificist resolu- tion urged the importance of an immediate peace by negotiation. As usual, the Pacificist spokesmen lectured their countrymen on the wickedness of continuing the war, but did not suggest any practical means of ending it that would not demonstrably amount to a sur- render of all essential points to Germany. Mr. Balfour said that the story that the Allies were bound by a secret treaty to hand over to France, or to some independent community, the control of German people on the left bank of the Rhine was a mare's-nest. He justly ridiculed the notion that we had either changed our war aims or had never declared them. The only people who had never declared their war aims were the Central Powers. They had ostentatiously refused to do anything of the kind.
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