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 with the Soviet, which had just delivered its convocation to Stockholm for a Conference distinct from that of the Dutch-Scandinavian Committee. We joined them, and at our first meeting drew up a note clearly expressing the point of view of the Belgian delegation. This note contained. (1) our interpretation of the peace formula of the Provisional Russian Government, especially in what concerned Belgium; (2) the explanation of the motives that led us to consider a full meeting, to which would be admitted those who held the present policy of the Socialist Majority in the Central Empires, would be both useless and dangerous.

After sending off this note the pourparlers were interrupted, Thomas having gone to Moscow and thence to the front; but during his absence we had the opportunity of learning facts that it would be interesting to make public, could one write freely the complete history of the Stockholm Conference. Although many Socialists in France and Great Britain judged this Conference to be undesirable, it had in certain diplomats open partisans, espe-