AMERICA'S WAR AIMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 275, 9 August 1918, Page 6

AMERICA'S WAR AIMS

A CALL TO SOCIiLISTS.

* ?? Dlt T 8 T I? 35 "™ 11 '* that tho Socialists of tho United States "will do nothing which might retard" the victory of the Allies is made by Max Eastman, editor of tho Socialist monthly, "Liberator," whoso trial on the charge of hindering the draft ended in a disagreement recently. Writing in the July issue of tho "Liberator" on the changed, attitude of United States Socialists towards tho war and the Administration's war problem,, Mr. Eastman says in part:— "To-day the Allied armies dre/fightingto prevent a German victory, and tha Socialists, whatever they may think nf Allied diplomacy in the past, will do nothing which might rotard that fight, The growing menace of a Prussian victory„ tho increasing power of Labour and in.' ternationalist elements among' the Allies,, tho President's peace terms, the Germain invasion of Socialist Russia, tho refrain, ing of the Allies from such invasion, anlf. the Liehnowsky's revelation of Germany's original war purpose, have served to confuse or to remove altogether any such! outstanding motive among the majority of Socialists. And thus, by a combination of natural instinct with the logici of events, a certain degree of sacredl union has come into existence in America, as it did in. Europe,- The platform at St. Louis was not adopted for these* elections. It was not adopted in these circumstances. It bears no relation to it world in which there exists a Soviet Republic in ,danger of annihilation from four quarters and calling to us for four kinds of help. It boars uo relation to a war' in which 1 the international peace terms proposed by that Republic have> been embodied in the organised war programme of our country, For my part-1 advocate a generous recognition if tha statement of war aims that President. Wilson has dictated to the Allied countries. I believe that the Socialist Party of America /should join tho British Labour Party and the Socialists of France and Italy and Belgium, in endorsing President Wilson's war aims, and developing their implications."