Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-04
SOC|AL|STSSPL|T
ALL OVER EUROPE
BY ACTION Of REDS
Meeting at Geneva Threat
ened With Dissolution Due
to BoIshevism.
BY WILLIAM r. NASH.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.


| PARIS, August 4.-European So
cialism's attitude toward bolshevism
| is brought out clearly at the meeting
/ of the Second Internationale now
going on in Geneva. Switzerland.
The English, German, Swedish and
Belgian socialists, who adhere to this
t~ganization, are fatty anti bolshe-
present congress. In Italy, Spain,
Greece and Hungary, on the other
hand, the socialist parties are pro-
| bolshevist and their delegates are
present either in person or in spirit
at the Internationale being held in
Moscow
French Socialists Divided.
! In other countries, such as France,
the members of the proletariat can
! They are not radical enough for
Lenin, and on the whole, they are
with the Second Internationale. In
| this group can be seen the German
independents. One of the first ques-
| tons discussed at Geneva was
whether the French delegation COM
posed of moderates should be ad-
! IIlllleu 10 the congress III view OIL tne
| fact that they had bolted their party.
The matter was decided in the negc-
tive as their admission would have
antagoniZed irreparably the French
majority socialists and that was just
what the Second Internationale did
not want to DO.
! Nevertheless, motion proposed by
NJ. Roster, a French delegate on the
war responsibility, was inscribed on
the order of the day and is already
under consideration by subcommit-
tee. The German ma jority socialists
country in 1914.
Within the next few days there will
be discussions on the league of
nations, Ne colonial policy and the
problem of immigration. The social
list point of view on each is inter-
esting and instructive. The principle
of the league is acceptable to all
members of the Second Interna-
tionale: Moreover. the majority are
probably ready to accept even the
ipresent covenant, which they regard
as imperfect but capable of improve
ment. AS one of the socialists put
lit to me:
| This document constitutes the first
step toward disarmament, the regu-
| lation of wars, the protection of the
weak, the enactment of international
labor laws, and reform of the present
| economic systems. These are things
| which we all want"
Colonial Policy Favored.
/ With regard to the second point the
! socialist opinion is that a colonial
policy should be pursued in the in
terest of the aboriginal inhabitants
and not in those of the conquering
| countries. immigration laws, they
say, should be passed to protect la
| borers working abroad. Thus Italian
or Portuguese road men working in
| France should be entitled to the bene-
| fits of the French law.
| Many important statesmen are pres
| ent in Geneva. These men will have
| to decide whether their organization,
| the Second Internationale, is to con-
! tinue. If they can agree on an order
| of the day all will be well; if they
F., cannot agree dissolution will come
and then the different national par
| ties will either drift toward a third
iinternationale or with the collabora-
| ton of the French socialists will try
to form new group on different
principles