Reichstag Meeting, Dec. 15, 1915
The energy which Liebknecht displayed at this meeting was remarkable considering that he had not completely recovered from the injury which he had received in October, 1915, at the front.
Twenty-third meeting of the Reichstag, Dec. 14,1915, 2 P. M.
Present at the Federal Council table: Ministers v. Jagow and Helfferich.
The first point on the order of the day—Questions by Dr. K. Liebknecht (Soc.-Dem.).
Dr. K. Liebknecht:
First Question
(I-a) Is the Government prepared, if the other belligerents are also ready and prepared, to enter peace negotiations on the basis of the renunciation of annexations? This question I withdraw since on Thursday, Dec. 9, 1915 (Liebknecht refers here to Bethman-Hollweg's speech in the Reichstag on Dec. 9, 1915, in which the Imperial Chancellor answered the majority Socialist's peace interpellation. S. Z.), the Imperial Chancellor answered this question in the negative. The Government wants a war of conquest, not peace!
(I-b) On what other basis is the Government ready to enter immediately upon peace negotiations?
(Foreign Minister von Jagow by mistake begins to read the answer to another question (laughter).) Then the following answer is given to question I-b: