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Show FRENCH SOCIALISTS SEE WAR FOR HUMAN LIBERTY Bordeaux! The attitude of the French Socialists towards the war Is defined in the newspaper La France fcy a Socialist: "Internationalism," he writes, "nev-r "nev-r meant the suppression of nationally national-ly but an understanding between the "ations, which naturally presupposes their existence. Socialists realize that victory for Germany would be fol-if'M fol-if'M by a rule of saber and spurred heel in Europe, while a triumph for France would mean a German republic, repub-lic, a republic in Bohemia, a republio in Austria, and a republic In Hungary, and an end to European militarism. It would mean peace assured and all roads to progress opened. "The war for us is something mora than a struggle for our sacred national Independence; it is the barricade on which we fight for the progress of humanity. hu-manity. That is why we have abandoned aban-doned everything for naUofn defense." de-fense." ' |