THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE
INTERNATIONALIST SOCIALIST MEETING. ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) STOCKHOLM, May 19. A wireless message states that Herr Bran ting presided at- a great International Socialist meeting. He declared that neutrals' duty was to work, not for peace at any price, but for a peace that was just arid durable, and founded on principles of universal aemocracy. He added: "The German Government refuses to allow opposition SociaJists to come to Stockholm. Perhaps it will be forced to permit them. If it remains obdurate that will be a great moral victory for us, revealing Germany's uneasy conscience and fears 1 ." •Mr Troelstra, the Dutch Socialist leader ,said Germany was hardly likely to follow Russia's exaniple. Each country was settling its difficulties in- its own way. '',/-' M. Akelrod, a Russian .Socialist, said M. Lenin's propaganda for sabotage in the army was an act of folly. JtsTonly possible consequence wouldi be to\ crusn the 'Russian involution by German absolutism. Neither was a separate peace thinkable . That would be treason to Belgium and other, small oppressed nations. iM. Huysmans, a : Belgian representative ,demanded reparation and independence for Belgium. M. Sachasoff. a Bulgarian, emphasised the powerlessness of- the Bulgarian workers against the bellicose spirit of the leading classes. GERMAN DELEGATES NOW GIVEN PASSPORTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec May 21, 8-40 a.m.) AMSTERDAM,.May 20. The. Vorwaerts st-ates that representatives of both German majority and minority Socialist parties have been granted passports to the Stockholm Congress.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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