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Show SOCIALISTS TO SEND MESSAGE TO WILSON Peace Conference Spends Much Time Discussing Refusal Re-fusal to Issue Passports. STOCKHOLM, May 27, via London. 6 p. ni. Miuli of the session on Saturday of the Socialist peace conference here was devoted to discussion of the refusal of the Washington government to grant passports to Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee, Milwau-kee, Morris Hillquit and Algernon Lee of New York, the delegates chosen by the American Socialist parly to attend the conference. Delegates here expressed sorrowful amusement and surprise at the action of the government, and the conviction generally gen-erally was expressed that the attitude of the state department was only to be explained ex-plained on the theory that President Wilson Wil-son and Secretary lansing had been imperfectly im-perfectly Jnformed and hence failed to comprehend the true nature of the conference con-ference and the work it was trying to accomplish. ' The conference leaders p'otnted out that the Socialist international bureau had been foremost in espousing President Wil-son's Wil-son's peace Ideas, and, with this in mind. ! the conference decided to send a cable-; cable-; gram to President Wilson along the line ; indicated. ! The rest of the day's session was tfe-! tfe-! voted to a group conference with Aus-, Aus-, trians. Czech Slavs and Gaiician Poles. This makes the third group conference ! held, the preceding ones having been with the Bulgarians and the Finns. Hungarians Hun-garians now in Stockholm will be heard . next. Leaders of the conference continue to I ex i tress optimism. Secretary Huysmans told the Associated Press today that the i course of affairs hitherto had been more ' encouraging than anybody had dared hope. The difficulties encountered in reconciling rec-onciling opposing views, he said, were much less than had been anticipated. |