A PATRIOT
Evans, Elizabeth Glendower
A Patriot By ELIZABETH CLENLOWER EVANS EMIL VANDERVELDE, the Socialist leader who joined the Ministry of Belgium on the outbreak of the War and who has since visited this country to place a...
...Evidently, in the mind of M. Vandervelde, loyalty to the International is in no way incompatible with patriotism...
...Between the two evils they chose the one they considered the lesser...
...But this effort has been in vain...
...He says: "In all international conflicts of latter years, the International Socialist movement has found itself united...
...As for the atrocities which M. Vandervelde believes German troops have perpetrated in Belgium, he expresses the belief that the German Socialists will "denounce and scourge" them when they come to learn the facts...
...All direct communications have been rendered impossible between the Socialists of Germany and those of other countries...
...We will naturally be careful not to address any reproaches to them in this matter...
...A Patriot By ELIZABETH CLENLOWER EVANS EMIL VANDERVELDE, the Socialist leader who joined the Ministry of Belgium on the outbreak of the War and who has since visited this country to place a protest against German atrocities in the hands of President Wilson, has issued a statement which does him credit...
...And with our whole hearts we render this testimony to our German comrades, that in their efforts for the maintenance of neace they did their duty, their whole duty, and more than their duty...
...We take cognisance of the difficulties of the situation...
...If they had refused to vote for credits for the war they would have given over their country to Cossack invasion...
...War had already been declared by Austria on Servia when the International Socialist Bureau, convened specially urgently at Brussels, took the stand that Germany should prevail upon Austria, and France upon Russia, to secure the localization of the conflict...
...The war has become general...
...Again, I repeat, we do not blame them...
...In voting them they have furnished to the Kaiser arms against Republican France, and against the democracies of Western Europe...
...It was still so on the eve of the present conflict...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
