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210 as to what credence should be given them and what response should be made to them. Suggestion of statements to be made by Allied representatives, and consideration of their phraseology and substance. Special consideration of the reception to be given to German statements as to the course of democratisation in Germany.

At an emergency meeting of the Committee summoned a few days later to draft a statement of propaganda policy with reference to the German Peace Note, Lord Northcliffe said his department had prepared for submission to the Committee a draft statement, based on a consideration of President Wilson's pronouncements. After various slight modifications had been made, the statement was adopted in principle.

In its final form it read:

"In order to stop further bloodshed, the German Government requests the immediate conclusion of an armistice on land and water and in the air.

"The Note accepts the programme set forth by the President of the United States in his message to Congress of January 8th, 1918, and in his later pronouncements,