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 selves in the same international justice. Our views on this point are in entire accordance with those which citizen MacDonald expressed in a letter to one of ourselves, a letter which has since been made public.

This opinion had, moreover, been forcibly expressed in the manifesto of President Wilson, and all the Socialist democracies of the allied countries find in it an echo of their own views. We believe that even on this point the opinion of our Russian friends will be the same as our own, and that if they have not expressly mentioned the Democratic Constitution of States and the establishment of a Society of Nations in the programme that they submitted to the working classes of the whole world, it is because they have considered both as implicitly understood in the right of nations to dispose of their own destinies.

We shall rejoice unreservedly if it is permitted us to see in all countries, in those governed by the coalition of