New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Famous do" Led by Morel.
Win American Aid by Re-
pudiating Bernc Farley
Denounce German Stand
TeutOns Accused of Treason
to Internationale and Of
Violations of agreements
BY Chester M. Wright
Neac YORK. Tribune
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4Nfec I Orjc ITtbune
Special Gable Sera,ice
Copyright. 1919. New York Tribune Inc)
PARIS, Feb. 17-The famous "fortv
Socialists" of the Chamber of Depu-
ties, now forty-three, led by Compere
Morel, issued a reputation Of the
berne conference yesterday which fore
shadows complete break from the
French Socialist party. The Ameri-
cans, Charles Edward Russell and Will
lam English Walling, thereupon pre-
sented their congratulations, promis
ing all assistance" to the protcstants.
The French declaration sets forth
FULLY the abnormality of the Berne
congress, instancing the precipitate-
ness OF its convocation, which did not
permit national sections to study or
offer considered opinions or resolu-
uons to be offered; the impossbility
OF distant sections being represented;
the refusal to participate of the Bel
glan laborites, one of the most I'M
portant elements of the internationale;
the voluntary abstention of the Italians
and Swiss; the abstention. seemingly
less voluntary, of the English National
SOCIALISTS, the Italian Socialist Union
and the American Social Democratic
League; and, on the other hand, the
lmprovlsed representation of parties
that have not yet adhered to the inter
rationale
Because the Berne congress refused
to declare itself formally and def
nitely on the question of the war cul-
pabillty of the German Social Democ-
racy, the forty-three French Socialist
deputies energetically repudiate any
solidarity with the Germans. whom
they accuse of treason to the inter
rationale since August, 1914, and to
whom they attribute a cynical viola
tion Of the decisions of international
socialist congresses. They also re-
pudlate any assimilation of socialism
with the governmental masquerade at
"eimar and Berlin, which, they say, is
preserving all the political mechan-
lsms of the imperial German regime.
furthermore, they dcnouncc the
coalition in Germany Of the bourgeois
parties and the Majority Socialists as
Pan German in inspiration and de-
signed to conserve the old social or
der with its coucomitants of economic
oppression of the proletariat and a
new betrayal of the principles of in
ternatlonal socialism.
The Berne congress, not having had
the courage to condemn social demo
cracy, was equally impotent to for
mulate clear opinion of that other
caricature, Bolshevism, More and his
fellow radical deputies declare. Lack
ing energy and Judgment, which are
initial faults of German socialism,
they add, it showed itself incapable
of any vigor when faced with the new
dangers to which Bolshcvst disinte-
grafton exposes the working classes.
The French Socialists referred to in
the foregoing dispatch arc the minority
group led by Albert Thomas, Pierre
Renaudel and Comperc Morel. The
group participated in the International
Socialist Congress at Bernc. The Bel
gian party referred to refused to par
ticipate, but later reconsidered its de
cision and sent delegates to Borne The
other parties constitute small groups.
such as the Social Democratic League
in the United States, in the countries