Peace Aims of German Socialists: Conference of Party’s Members in Reichstag with Members of Party Committee.
(Reported in New York Times, August 26, 1915.)
Socialist Joint Committee.
1. Peace must be a permanent one, leading the nations to closer relations.
2. Germany’s opponents must not be permitted to acquire any German territory.
3. “Most favored nation” clauses should be introduced into peace terms with all belligerents.
4. Tariff walls should be removed.
5. So far as possible, freedom of the seas should be established, the right of capture abolished, and the straits, important for the world’s commerce, should be internationalized.
6. Austria and Turkey should not be weakened.