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Although the question whether British Labour and British Socialists shall

be represented at the proposed InternationalLabour Conference at Stockholm on September 9th (where they would meet representatives of Germany) has occupied a great deal of attention during the week, we need not discuss it in detail, as a decision may be reached by the representatives of Labour themselves before these words are in our readers' hands. The argument in favour of British representation at Stockholm is that the Russian Council of Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates earnestly desires that all nations should take part, and that if we refuse this suggestion (1) we shall seem to be indifferent to the wishes of Russia, and (2) we shall allow the German Socialists at the Conference to have matters all their own way.

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