§ 43. Colonel YATEasked the Joint Patronage Secretary to the Treasury how much money has been expended by the National War Aims Committee in the publication of books, pamphlets, photographs, and cubist pictures, etc.; and how much has been expended on lectures and addresses on the subject of the war aims of our enemies as against ourselves, respectively?
Captain GUEST (Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury)The expenditure referred to in the first part of the question, up to the end of March last, amounted approximately to £41,000, and for the two months of April and May, 1918, to £17,400. The expenditure on lectures and addresses, including the cost of supplying speakers, amounted to £21,600 up to the end of March last, and for the two months of April and May, 1918, to £5,800. It is impossible to differentiate between the expenditure, as 171 asked for in the last part of the question, because, at all the meetings and lectures, the war aims of our enemies as well as those of the Allies are dealt with.
§ Mr. MALCOLMMay I ask whether the purchases referred to in the first part of the question will, when finished with by the War Aims Committee, be offered to the Imperial War Museum to be kept for the nation?