August Bebel
Those journalistic skirmishes proved to be no more than the first act in a renewed display of verbal savagery at the party conference, held that year at Magdeburg during September 1910. It was again August Bebel who instigated the resolution presented to the conference by the party executive. The actions of the Baden parliamentarians were condemned as "a major deliberate disregarding" of previous conference resolutions, an act which imperilled the very unity of the party. Presumably it was in full expectation of the conversation being widely reported that immediately before the conference opened August Bebel confided to comrades that Ludwig Frank, who had once been his "darling" and his "Benjamin" was a terrible disappointment.