Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-11
GE RNANS At Be RNE
ACCEPT THE BLAME
FOR CAUSING WAR
Austrian Socialists Set the
Example by Frankly Con-
Tossing Their Country S
Share Of the Responsibility.
BY Beatrice Baskerville.
1919. by the Press Publish
iOrr 20


Especial Wireless Dispatch to World
and Alhusuerque Journal.
Bernc, Dec. 10.-Iiappiiy fer the
future of the intcrnationa'e. the Ger
mans in the socialist conference have
officially announced that Germany,
along with Austria-Hungary, is re-
sponsible for the outbreak of the war.
The French delegates, with Albert
Thomas ana Renaudel at their head,
have accepted this German confession.
The Austrian delegates, led by Herr
Seitz, first wholeheartedly accepted
their county's share of the respons bill
ity, but the attitude of one of the Ger
man delegates, who claimed a "defen-
sive war necessitat2d the forming
of speciay responsibility commit
tee, which has just arrived at the
afore said result
A cheerful aspect o. the various
group and committee meetings is that
all the delegates who have so far
spoken agree that the nternationale
pledges itself to support Prs sident
Wilson's fourteen poins throughout.
On this account deep regret and a
certain amount of surprise are felt
that American labor has held aloof
from the conference.
English Delegate Thomas, in spec
ial interview with the WCrld corre--
spondent, said
Regrets Abgencc of Americans.
Il regret the participation of
the American labor federation be-
cause it did such fine work during the
war, and it would have helped toward
reconstruction and fastened peace
had it been represented here. Amerl-
can labors absence is all the more re-
grettable when it is remembered that
we look to Paris, not for peace as be-
tween conqueror and conquered, but
for a world peace, free from the
germs of future war and based upon
the Wilsonian principles
Regarding the value of The con-
fence, | would indicate to American
labor that there has been unani-
nous declaration against consumption
and armcments, which is of great i'm
portance, being the great basis for thel
league of nations.
I'VE want to establish a new spirit
in the peace treaty, not the spirit of
Gcrmany's peace with France in 1870,
which made Germany a hyword, butt
the spirit of Englands peace with
South Africa, which reconciled herl
former enemies and made them loyal
friends.
Another matter with which Amer
lean labor could have helped us isl
our internationale labor charter, which |
will raise the standard of labor
throughout the world, and, above all,
prevent the exploiting of native labor.
This conference is unique because al !
L. ~, III "a For.
mer enemies can come toge ther ana !
discuss the realities of life. The hor-
rors of war have shown the way to
peace.
Blamed for Bolsheyism.
A session of the internationale con-
ference was marked by one dramaticl
incident. A Russian delegate, Mr..
Remstock declared that the Russian
revolution failed because the social
lists throughout the world refused to
support it, and therefore the assem-
bed audience had share of the re-
sponsibility of having allowed the
growth of Bolshevism with the bour-
geois governments.
A German delegate, Herr Mueller,
declared repeatedly that German
militarism is dead, despite the possi-
vive it, and that the German women
will work especially to guard against
It's revival and for a league of nations.
1t must be admitted that the gen
eral meetings of the conference afford
a chance of making acquaintances
rather than of listening to the various
speakers. One British delegate de-
scribed one public proceeding as a
lot of palaver. The real work of the
is done in the smaller
which appear to form
themselves by mutual agreement rath-
or than by a vote of the whole as
sembly. They sit alternately in the
of the hotels and discuss the
league of nations, child labor and the
principles.
If the conference forms its labor
by Friday, it will perform a
miracle indeed, unless the long list of
speakers is cut down, The British
delegates show desire TO expedite
business, but the territorial commit
tee. which is expected to decide the
knotty points of the Czecho-Slovaki
and other troublesome territorial
claims. was declared by Delegate Bum
ing yesterday to be in "a terrible
knot
The nlebiscite idea finds little favor,
as it is feared that the contending
parties will complain that their OPP
have engineered the decisions,
The temporary settlement just an
nounced is so vague and shows such
little knowledge of the real situation
in the Balkans and eastern Europe
that it cannot be called solution at
ALL but leaves the matter to others,
probably the peace conference, to de-
eide.
One gets the impression that the
lacks an energetic, capable
leader, who would stem the flow of
speeches which nobody listens to. and
keep the delegates strictly to business.
Injured IN Auto Accident.
East Las Vegas ~ NJ, Feb. To-