ialist movement. The duty of every Socialist--especially of
those of us who are not in revolution--is to strive by might and by
main to get a union of the two. We may have to suffer a time of
internal trouble owing to the friction of conflicting conceptions
of Socialist reconstruction, but I am quite certain that no one has
yet said what is to be the last word on the subject, and to split
on such a controversy as this is to advertise to the world how
unready Socialism is to assume command."

The Berne Conference, which had at first been called to meet at
Lausanne, the Russian Bolshevik government of Lenine denounced in a
manifesto which the "Chicago Socialist" of February 8, 1919, republished
in part as follows:

"The Central Committee of the Russian Communist Bolshevik Party in
a manifesto on the proposal to call together an International
Conference at Lausanne, declares that the project cannot be
considered even as an attempt to revive the Second International.
The latter ceased to exist during the first days of August, 1914,
when the representatives of the majority of nearly all the
Socialist parties passed over into the ranks of their imperialist
governments.

"The attempts made to revive this International, for which
agitation has been carried on in all countries throughout the war,
emanated from elements standing mid-way, which, whilst not
recognizing openly Imperialist Socialism, nevertheless had no idea
of creating a third revolutionary International.

"The attempts made to go back to the pre-war situation regarding
the labor movement crashed against the Imperialist policy of the
official parties, which could not, at that time, admit the
appearance of an attempt to restore the International, fearing, as
they did, that this might tend to weaken the war policy of the
government and the working class working in unison.

"To counteract these attempts, the Imperialist Socialist parties
undertook to change the conditions of representation of the
national sections in the old International. The last so-called
inter-Allied conference in the Entente countries made it clear that
this change had been effected.

"Great Britain was represented by a motley organization in which
the Socialist parties could play no direct role. Italy was
represented by me