In this war official and quasi-official statements of war aims are the shock troops of propaganda. During the last six months these pronouncements have increasingly embodied the claims of the belligerents to represent mankind's efforts to create a new social and economic order that will abolish the economic malaises and social injustices of the last twenty years. From a study of these pronouncements the following facts will emerge: that the announcement of war aims of a social nature is a vital weapon of propaganda in this total war; that this weapon has been used by the enemy shrewdly, if with ruthless inconsistency, for the purpose of creating disunity and class conflict within the democracies; that in this war ofideas Great Britain has chosen to fight on the defensive—at least in so far as official pronouncements are concerned—and has not as yet countered Hitler's specious "New World Order" with a potent dynamic of her own; that Great Britain's war aims, in so far as they deal with the defeat of the Nazi principle of force and with the rehabilitation of the conquered territories of our allies and of France, have been stated with sufficient clarity and vigour for the present, but that, in so far as they deal with mankind's struggle for economic security, they probably have not been so stated. Such, at any rate, are the conclusions of those who are putting pressure upon the British Government to sponsor a social dynamic in order to mobilize behind the democratic cause the dispersed longings of the masses everywhere for a greater measure of social justice and economic security.