Before the vote was taken, M. Faure outlined the real meaning of his motíon. He said he would agree to be the minority and remain a disciplined oppositionist. Disagreement between M. Blum and: himself did not affect their friendship and the partys unity which will not suffer as a result of the difference in views, M. Faure asked whether Europe at present was different from the Europe of 1914, which was divided into two hostile blocks. At that time, there was also a Rome-Berlin-Vienna axis and a Franco-Russian pact, but this did not prevent the Socialist Party from struggling for peace. If a war were to break out, he added, Europe could have no human hopes for a long time.
The speaker stressed that it was not possible to envisage a race with the totalitarian states in the field of armaments without a complete transformation of the present regime—Havas.
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