File No. 763.72119/736
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia (Francis)
1655. Your 1634, August 16, 6 p.m. Department has refused to issue passports to persons desiring to attend Stockholm conference. Application of Morris Hillquit was specifically refused. It is true that there was a split in the American Socialist Party and the element which desires participation in the Stockholm conference is in [Page 755] a great minority. The Socialist Labor Party is strongest for participation at Stockholm. In last presidential election this party cast for its candidate 13,000 votes out of a total of more than eighteen and a half million.