File No. 763.72119/650
The Minister in Sweden ( Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 19, 7.30 a.m.]
470. Max Goldfarb, with Jewish paper Forward, New York, claiming represent American Socialist Party, and Boris Reinstein, who is representative Socialist Labor Party, and D. Davidovitch, who represents Socialist Territorialist Labor Jewish Party in America, all of whom sailed on the steamer Oscar II, arrived here to-day to attend so-called International Socialist Conference. I am reliably informed by persons who have had conferences with these men that they came to represent at Stockholm conference American Socialist parties by whom they say they have been appointed to attend the conference as official representatives of American Socialists. They state that they have no written credentials; that their credentials were telegraphed by Morris Hillquit1 to the Secretary of the Stockholm conference after the Oscar II left Halifax.
Boris Reinstein states that he is an American citizen; that he obtained an American passport which was revoked when it was found that he was to attend the Stockholm conference. I call the attention of the Department to the fact that according to his own statement Reinstein came on the Oscar II without a passport of any kind but he declines to give any explanation of how he passed officials at New York and Halifax. Goldfarb is probably not an American citizen. He evades questions as to his citizenship and probably has not a passport. Davidovitch is Russian. These three men are being given very considerable publicity in Swedish press and I recommend that Department cable me statement on the matter to be given to press.
- Chairman of the National Committee of the Socialist Party in the United States.↩