ABSTRACT
The leading members in the government Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Barnes came together with Asquith to form the executive committee of a new organization, the National War Aims Committee (NWAC). They were, the national committee informed them, always to keep the following factors in mind: The emphasis, therefore, was to be maintained fully upon the war. Locally, NWAC committees organized subcommittees in each constituency to arrange for propaganda regarding war aims, war savings, food economy, national service and munitions work. If this was not sedition, it was certainly provocative, particularly when we remember the prominence of uniformed personnel in previous incidents of patriotic violence, and the fact that many volunteers were also police auxiliaries. Organizing such patriotic violence was part of what the NWAC was about part of the reason it had been created by the Lloyd George government.
