SOCIALIST MANIFESTO.
PEACE FORMULAS. ..
1 (Australian nnd;NiZ. CabW; Association.V . .^ '•■ (Kecoived. h>ept,.>3, 8.50a.m.) •.",.■-. LONBON^^ept.. 2. Messrs Heuderspn, ,1 "Vaudexvelde, Thomas/and pthw British., Freuch and "lle.lgiaji, delegates :to the' Sbciali»fc!:C6nfej'ence,-. have .issued.' a manifesto* in order to avoid A misunderstanding owing to, ; tho. 'Conference's^ failure to agree to the^principal, questions. ; ■ ; . •••; The manifpt©, 'states.. that ; the .policy. iof 7 Imperialist »nd antagoiusiic- ,'tendqneies which. .■ . divide , .' societies caused theN war,.-, ,The^ victory. Si the German Imperialists Would mean the > anjjiihilatioii ,of democracy and ■ liberty tliroughout .the world, i Tlie Uussian revolution -,• 'has not yet stirred an •= uprking of popular forces :in Austria ,tind Gqrmapy, butr . instead the new, Russian democracy has been compelled to'^defend itself from renewed aggression by the Tsars at Yienna .and Berlin. •_ The Russian peace fyormula ; t deals With a clearer definition ■ of peace without indemnities..- It should not exclude just compensation for damages^ !Peace w.ithout annexation' cannot exclude .; disannekation of territories conquered by force of war, for right must not b e permitted', to become va War 1 of conquestt The Austro^G'ermans cannot' expect an j effective effort towards peac"e until: , a substitute is found for the present, government in «. Democratic regime, sealing the defeat of militarism. Then it'jwould 'be the 'duty of the socialists, Wdrld-wide. : 'to prevent Allied Governments crushing ,the new Austro-German , demorcacies. '"■ : L ; ;
' , -' STOCKHOLM, .Sept, ,2, ... international Socialists- at sent coiiigratqlatibns 'on ; the initiation ;bf: a. cofiference. vfiih its • object of bringing, peace. ; '-They- . -'pointed/ out; that ; .the" Balkan; "questions -Jed .to tjie; precipitation ■of'SVarv : - ; Sirnilarjy the Koi'eanihuestioris hlrfy •■ provoke ' the -ne^t Mar , if : Korea re-, mains enslaved. . .- -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14392, 3 September 1917, Page 3
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