New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Who s Who IN
Socialism,
By William English Wall;,u
OF the American Alliance for LeI..
and Democracy
1.-Brantlng, of Sweden

TNAE German peace agitators o..
perpetual need of a STALKING y u
behind which to hide. Tbs w, wye
candidate chosen is Hjalmar Bra,.;. Aas'
leader of the Swedish Socialists .ss A'
of the three managers into who's. Vas
the coming international" SociaIs. =
ference has been placed. The oths,
Troelstra, cynical pro German. and Wv w"
mans, pacifst fanatic of the most ~. s'S
type have already been discredited ''4
Branting is not pro German. but J..
neutral in this great war of au+o..
against democracy. Moreover, he h..
himself to all the Stockholm peace u.. VII
vres carried on by the German eovsrr,~'.
and, worst Of all, he offers himses =.
cloak for the German Socialists even eoi,s
so far as to defend the Majority fact;o s'"s
1t is probable that Branring is bo,...
and regards the enormous issues Of ~.
as of no moment when compared to ths J.
mand of all classes in Sweden that tba ~
should cease.
Branting's worst crime against ,,....
tional democracy is his defence of tn. f..
man Majority Socialists
Branting knows very well that al, G.
cialists outside of Germany "disaprrov. y,
German militarism." Branting know, a.
Their that the German Socialists ara ,,u.
aware of this fact. Branting knows A.,
some" German Socialists alreadv sur,,-
the democratic peace terms, but that th.,
are a very small minority. Bran.i,,
knows, in spite of his pretence of not k,or
ing it, that the number of such renu,,.,.
democratic Socialists is too small to h,v.
any effect whatever on German nnb,.
opinion.
The whole attitude of Brantinr from ~.
beginning Of the war has been u..s,
valueless to the democratic cause IN emit.
of occasional vague phrases of sympathy
His statements in the past tive weeks sns
his advocacy of negotiations to settle q.
war while Germany is in possession Of tv,.
thirds of Europe are sufficient to dscrd.
him utterly and forever among the damn.
cratic peoples.
H.-Troelstra, of Holland
The originator Of the Stockholm Con.
ference IS Troelstra, the pro- German S.
cialist leader of Holland Over a wear 40.
Troelstra went to Berlin and had A cor.
sultaton with Zimmerman, the German Po,.
eign Secretary, who organized the con.
spiracy to get Japan and Mexico into wa,
with the United States. After obtsin,,
Zimmerman's approval, the Stockholm 80
cialist" Conference was proposed and pub
licly supported by the governments Of Ger
many, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria AMI
Turkey.
The reasons Troelstra gives for an inter
national Socialist conference at the pre-,
ent time are precisely the reverse Of the /
reasons given by the pacifst fanatics, 50
that one or the other group is engaged il I
campaign of falsehood
Troelstra's position is in practically eyery
point identical with that of Schedensnn
the German leader, with whom Troelstn
on intimate terms. He even attributes tte J
war primarily to England and not to Ger |
many CD in the following words: "Ths !
entente cordiale between England ar.
rance by the late klng Edward was thsE
beginning of the grouping of the nation
which led to the war;
Troelstra gives the Western nations s. {
ultimatum that no revolution c6n be a
pected in Germany. Troelstra says thh &
Russia also built hopes on revolution il E
the central countries, but argues that Il /
those countries independent political 81 E
ton against the government has been CO.. 3
siderably weakened by the demands Of tn
national struggle against the enemy, an1
that local disturbances, chiefly arising frsr !
food scarcity, cannot be regarded as bib
ORANGES to the prosecution of the war
Therefore, urges Troestra, as The Gef !
mans won't revolt we must compromise