File No. 763.72119/660a
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden (Morris)
250. The Department will shortly send you information to be discreetly used if you deem it desirable in counteracting statements of Reinstein, Goldfarb and Davidovitch. In the meantime, you may, [Page 745] if desirable, unofficially tell the Swedish press that Victor L. Berger, the American Socialist, has publicly stated that these men do not represent the American Socialist Party, and that none of them has the right to speak for Mr. Berger’s organization. At the national Socialistic headquarters in Chicago it was publicly stated that Goldfarb had never been authorized to speak or act for the Socialist Party. Reinstein belongs to the Socialist Labor Party. In the last election this party cast 13,000 votes out of a total of more than eighteen and a half million which shows of how little importance Reinstein’s organization is.