SOCIALISTS PEACE

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1917, Page 3

SOCIALISTS PEACE

STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE ABANDONED VARIOUS. EFFORTS SUGGESTED LONDON. May i S . The "Daily Chronicle's" Stockholm correspondent states that the Belgian Socialists, M. Vandervelde and Deman. en route to Petrograd, interviewed the Swedish and Dutch Socialist delegates regarding the proposed peace conference at Stockholm. The latter explained that - they hoped to confer successively with the belligerent and neutral delegations with a view to outlining the peace proposals and the lines of President Wilsons programme, thereafter convening a joint International Socialist Assembly of all countries. M Vandervelde, who is President of the International Socialist Bureau declared that the Belgian Socia'ists -could not be associated with Socialists supporting the Imperialistic aims of the Central Powers. The Dutch and Scandinavian Committee then abandoned the scheme for a joint conference. Simultaneously Germany announced her refusal to allow the German minority Socialists t* go to Stockholm. Meanwhile H. Vandervelde and Deman proceeded to Petrograd with a vie\v of organising a Labour 'Socialist Conference of- the Entente nations in or ° c'e ' to bring: the Russian Soviets' nnd Workmen's Council into line with their Allied comrades.