17 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 13

We have dealt in our leading article, and also below

in our pada of Parliament, with Mr. Lloyd George's scheme for an international War Council with its special military advisors. We need say for the moment only that the text of the Memorandum and Mr. Lloyd George's explanation, in which he dwelt with so much emphasis on the fact that the military experts would have no executive functions, do not modify our first impression of the Council scheme, or reduce the dangers we point out elsewhere. Tho essential danger is that the General Staffs both of Britain and of France will be short- circuited by the arrangements under which the Primo Ministers are to sit in conclave at Versailles. The same process of short- circuiting applies to the War Cabinets of all three countries.