The Daily Telegraph of Thursday published a long and remarkable
letter from Lord Lansdowne on the co-ordination of the war aims of the Allies. As this letter has come to our notice shortly before we go to press, we are unable to do more at present than briefly refer to it, though we are conscious that the spirit in which Lord Lansdowne has written, and the amount of care and thought which he has obviously bestowed upon his arguments, deserve, and will require, much more than a passing reference. The general purpose of his letter is to discover, if such things be discoverable, any signs on the horizon that an honourable peace—a peace securing for the Allies all the essential points for which they have professed themselves to be fighting—is not nearer than many people suppose. He writes of the crime of unnecessarily continuing the war as being only less than the crime justly charged against the authors of the war.
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