THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE.
[LONDON TIMES SERVICE—COPYRIGHT]
STOCKHOLM, June 17
M. Branting, interviewed, said that the conference did not aim at stopping the war, but at preparing a continuous peace. He considered, that the time had come when the workmen of all nations should fix conditions which would he durable for a worldpeace, because the belligerent proletariats were the least suspected of Imperialism. He declared that this e presence had guaranteed their condones not the German manoeuvre. He suggested, a temporary occupation iff Alsace-Lorraine by a neutral Power, nrohably Switzerland, then the taking of an independent referendum. If the German majority Socialists refused the world’s proletariats would be able t° judge of their genuineness. He hoped that M. Kerensky would re-establish order in Russia.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1917, Page 2
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