Down with class rule! Down with the rule of
brute force! Down with war! Up with the peaceful rule of the
people! (Signed on behalf of the British Section of the
International Socialist Bureau,)
J. KEIR HARDIE,
ARTHUR HENDERSON.
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KEIR HARDIE'S QUESTIONS.
Directed at Sir Edward Grey, British Minister for Foreign Affairs, in
House of Commons, Aug. 27.
_Mr. Keir Hardie_ (Merthyr Tydvil, Lab.) asked the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs whether the suggestions for a peace settlement made by the
German Ambassador, ["White Paper," Page 66, Item No. 123,] together with
his invitation to the Foreign Secretary to put forward proposals of his
own which would be acceptable as a basis for neutrality, were submitted
to and considered by the Cabinet; and, if not, why proposals involving
such far-reaching possibilities were thus rejected.
_Sir E. Grey_ (Northumberland, Berwick)--These were personal suggestions
made by the Ambassador on Aug. 1, and without authority to alter the
conditions of neutrality proposed to us by the German Chancellor in No.
85 in the "White Paper"--Miscellaneous, No. 6, [1914.]
The Cabinet did, however, consider most carefully the next morning--that
is, Sunday, Aug.
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