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It might be as well to recall here that at the time of our visit to Russia there was under discussion at Stockholm not only one conference, but three. In the first place, that of the Zimmerwaldians; in the second, that of the Dutch- Scandinavian Committee, in the third that of the Petrograd Soviet. Of the first we will say nothing. Grimm's International is not ours. There remain the two others.

When the Russian Revolution took place, Stockholm became necessarily the half-way house of the Socialists, and in a general way of all travellers between Petrograd and Paris or London, Berlin, or Vienna. It was since the defeat of the Serbians the only road to Russia, the only road to rejoin the Trans- Siberian Railway and go round the world.

We know in what conditions the Dutch Delegation of the Socialist International Bureau decided to take up its abode there.

Since the beginning of the war the