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RV 97 in your program with unacceptable propositions that an acceptance of your invitation is impossible without self-stultification on the part of those who think as I do. The result, of course, unavoidably is that your conference cannot be and will not be representative.

“I know many of those who have signed the call to your conference, and I know that the purity of their motives cannot be questioned for a single minute. Yet it cannot be denied that the result of many of the peace moves recently made has been to assist German imperialism in its struggle to maintain its grip, at least on Central Europe. If the war ends without a decisive victory, and especially without permanently solving the Austrian problem, the peace concluded will be simply a truce. If the Central Powers are permitted to retain any fruit of their aggression, or if they are permitted to oppress in the future any of the nationalities now under their domination, the peace so concluded will be one of the cemetery. If I must make a choice, I prefer war for democracy to the peace of the graveyard. These are some of the things that make many of us pause before we can even think of any co-operation with the pacifist movement. Such co-operation is certainly out of question where