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 Scandanavian Committee of Stockholm, the exchange of views based on the action of which we have spoken in the previous paragraph.

We believe that under these conditions great results could be achieved.

Lastly, we believe that these preliminaries might lead to the drawing up of a programme for a General Conference sufficiently definite to prevent any misunderstandings, and to discourage all diplomatic manœuvres of our adversaries, and to keep away those nominally Socialist bodies who would not decide to co-operate sincerely in the anti-Imperialist cause to which the International would convene them.

And we wish to state clearly that as soon as these conditions are fulfilled Belgian Socialists will be glad to attend such a plenary assembly, which would then be the real International.

Before closing, we would say a word on one of the questions submitted in the sheet