Abstract

Foreign Correspondence

This article focuses on an international conference held in Bern, Switzerland during 1919. In this conference there are ninety-one delegates sitting at tables laden with literature of propaganda, resolutions of committees and the printed records of proceedings. The gathering no longer represents the extreme Left, as it did five years ago, but is actually scorned as too conservative by the Swiss Socialists, the Russian Bolshevists and Italian Minority Socialists. The international conference has brought together in one room a large number of the most interesting personalities in Europe. Two days before the end of the meeting, in walked Eduard Bernstein, so long head of the Socialist Revisionists in Germany. He was full of his adventures in coming to the conference over the worn-out railroads of Germany, but he seemed to exert no influence whatever.