London's thoughtful Sunday Observer thought the time had come to be blunt. "What are we fighting for?" it asked out loud. Then, in answer to years of official "win-the-war-first-and-find-out-after-wards" propaganda, the Observer eloquently observed:
"This is the first age in which it has been openly regarded as wrong for a nation, a Government, a party, or even a newspaper, to have a policy. . . . Field Marshal Smuts, Lord Halifax and Mr. Lippmann are rebuked for saying, with more or less frankness, that a nation without a policy may perish. . . .
"War is politics. We fight for principles or war...