File No. 763.72/2530

The Ambassador in Germany (Gerard) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

3664. A Socialist named Haase made a speech in the Reichstag yesterday, attacking the Government for continuing the war and stating that it was hopeless to think of overcoming the enemy; that there will be neither victor nor vanquished in the war; that Europe was only going bankrupt and that there was no sense or reason in fighting any longer. He was repudiated by the majority of the Socialist Party and as a result he and 17 followers have founded a new party called the Socialist Labor Party which is ridiculed by practically the whole press as a revolutionary party which has forsaken the Fatherland in time of need and places socialistic theories of internationalism above patriotism.

Gerard