Evening star., 1917-09-14
SOCIALIST DELEGATES
OUTLINE PEACE TERMS
Sign Manifesto Saying Imperialism
Must Go-Provide for Con-
quered Countries.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER-
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1917.

CabIegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1917.
PARIS. September 1.-THE newspaper
Humanite publishes a manifesto signed
by number of delegates to the social
lists conference in London. The sigma
lures include those of the French dele
gate, Albert Thomas; the Belgian min
ister, Z. Vandervelde. and the former
British minister, Arthur Henderson. Fol-
lowing are the essential passages in the
resolution:
LAS at the London conference in 1915.
the undersigned socialists recall the fact
that while the European conflict had a
distant origin in the antagonisms Of
capitalists and in the imperialistic policy
which international socialism has ever
combated, Germany's deliberate aSgres-
sion against its neighborS threatens the
existence OF nationalities. Now, more
than ever. after three years of expert
ence in the war;. the undersigned affirm
that victory for German Imperialism
would be the defeat and destruction of
the democracy and the liberty of the
world.
The Russian revolution, which in the
war succeeded in breaking czarism and
imperialism, so far has failed to arouse
popular energies against the mlitarism
of the central empires On the con-
y
self against the renewed aggressions of
the cZars of Vienna and Berlin. The
great American democracy, whose Presi-
dent mentioned the inevitable necessity
OF nations, was in turn forced to take
part in the struggle to impose the rec
ognition of right against the central en-
pires' brutal domination
After analyzing the Russian revolution
the declaration continues:
The right of peoples to dispose of
fitrif
by popular consultation can be guaran-
teed only by a society of nations-that
is, by the societies of the universe, unit
ed in the organization of international
right to enforce and maintain lnterna-
tional right and to act against govern
ments capable of violating their treaties.
Inspired by these fundamental principles,
the socialists have sought to solve the
wars great problems. They have in
sisted that Belgium shall receive full
reparation for the violation of its neu-
trality; that Serbia and Rumania shall be
re-established and given their independ-
ence: that the Polish question shall be
solved in conformity with the will of the
Polish people and completed by the restor-
alton of an independent Poland, and that
throughout Europe from Alsace-Lorraine
to the Balkans the annexed populations
of territories such as the Trentino and
Trieste shall return to the mother lands
from which they were torn or to which
they aspire to belong.
The socialists signing the declaration
affirm their determination not to trans
form the war of defense to war of
conquest. adding:
I'VE declare our deep conviction that
the peace we desire-a just and durable
peace-is not possible so long as the peo-
pies do not enjoy democratic institutions
qualifying them to resist dynastic ambi
tons and the attempts at political and
economic supremacy of certain leading
ocfa ~ md n in hl
relations of democratic nations popular
loyalty for the secret equivocation of
government diplomacy. They are con-
vinced that the peoples of Germany and
Hungary cannot expect the allies
to offer peace so long as they do not
replace their governments responsible for
the war by democratic regime register
ing the defeat of militarism. The defeat
of Prussan militarism may come from the
inside as we'll as from the outside. If
the peoples of Germany and Austria
Hungary will themselves assume respon-
sibility in place of the imperial govern
ments they will relieve the allied nations
OF the necessity of imposing a durable
peace by the mere force of arms