HC Deb 22 July 1918 vol 108 cc1455-6
61. Mr. KING

asked the Joint Patronage Secretary to the Treasury how much money has been spent by the War Aims Committee on buying and circulating pamphlets which do not refer to the War or the conditions of peace; what authority the Committee has to undertake such expenditure; and whether all pamphlets, leaflets, and other publications published at the expense, for the purposes, or with financial aid, of the War Aims Committee will in future be clearly imprinted as emanating from the Committee?

Colonel SANDERS (Treasurer of the Household)

No pamphlets which do not refer to the War or the conditions of peace are issued by the War Aims Committee. The answer to the last part of the question is in the negative.

Mr. KING

Is not the pamphlet by Lord Grey of Falloden being circulated by the War Aims Committee, and has that pamphlet not been declared by the Home Office to have nothing to do with the War or with terms of peace?

Colonel SANDERS

I must refer the hon. Member to the Home Office.