ABSTRACT
During the spring of 1916, there began a certain amount of back-chat on the subject of the possibility of peace. Nevertheless one began to meet it in the most unexpected quarters. In the autumn, a Presidential Election was due in the United States; Woodrow Wilson intended to stand for a second term. Our peace terms, which President Wilson should then invite Germany to accept, threatening that if they would not do so the USA. would join the Allies. The papers included a telegram from House to Grey stating Wilson's concurrence in the record, so far as he was in a position to speak for the US, but insisting on the word 'probably'. The Prime Minister held a meeting of a 'Reconstruction' Committee, which met and discussed the possibility of a 'Peace Book', which should be drawn up on the analogy of the 'War Book' to facilitate the passage of the nation.
