A glance at the conditions of Peace published to the world on May 11th, the anniversary of the-sinking of the _Lusitania_, will form the natural conclusion to this imperfect survey of the last and most glorious stage in "England's Effort." But for the moment, let me return to the "Features of the War," and Marshal Haig's comments on them in his last Despatch.

Many, many books will be written about them in the future! All I can do here is to single out a few of those that seem to be most commonly in the minds of those who are still thinking about the war.
* * * * * Take, first, the value of cavalry in modern battle.

In his April Despatch, Sir Douglas Haig enters on a strong defence of it--the plea of a great cavalry leader.

Since the stabilisation of the trench system in the West, it has been, as we can all remember, a commonplace of the newspapers and of private conversation that cavalry were played out--a mere useless or ornamental excrescence on armies that, by the help of tanks and aeroplanes, could now excellently do without them.
"Not at all," replies Sir Douglas Haig.

If the German Command had had at their disposal last March and April "even two or three well-trained cavalry divisions, a wedge might have been driven between the French and British armies." In any case, the difficulties of our task would have been greatly increased.