In regard to war aims, the Prime Minister repeated the
terms laid down in his speech at Glasgow on June 29th last, and declared that they still held good, except that, as Russia had entered Into separate negotiations with the enemy, there could be no further criticism of the proposal that she should have Conetantinople. Reparation for Belgium, Serbia, and Rumania came first. The provinces rescued from the Turk must not be restored to his blood- stained hands. The future of Germany's lost colonies must be de- termined according to the desires of their native peoples. The peace, when it comes, must be an equitable peace. It must be guaranteed by the destruction of the Prussian military power. Above all, the Allies would negotiate in a very different frame of mind, with leas suspicion and more confidence, if they could deal with a democratic Germany rather than a despotic and militarist Germany. The Prussian military caste had made the war, and would have dethroned their Emperor had he tried to prevent it. That military caste, with their brutal and overbearing ways, had to be broken. Victory was the only thing that would give reality to terms of peace. .
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