V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v27;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

[ON ARTICLES AND NOTES IN “LE TEMPS”]
*Le Temps*, December 6, 1915. “The anniversary of the battle of Champigny” was celebrated today.
Speech by M. Albert Thomas:
“No peace until our Alsace and our Lorraine have finally returned to French unity”...
...until the disarming of German imperialism, etc., etc.
(...“victory”...) ...“to the bitter end”...
*Ibid.*, December 7, 1915. Article (editorial) “Good Words”
“This demonstration is all the more significant in that M. Albert Thomas represents in the government, together with MM. Guesde and Sembat, the Unified Socialist Party, certain elements of which cannot forget the dangerous tendencies that prevailed among them before the war and remain obsessed by the vague ideal of an internationalism of which we almost died”...
...“There (in Thomas’s speech) is a clear and formal demand for the plain and simple return, without conditions, of Alsace-Lorraine to France. These words happily cut through the overly cautious formulas, lending themselves to regrettable ambiguities, that were sometimes put forward on the extreme Left.”
*Ibid.* (p. 2) “Among the Socialists.” Yesterday there was a preparatory meeting (for the party congress of December 25, 1915) of the Federation of the Seine. Bourderon tried to speak, but he was violently interrupted (they shouted at him that he had no mandate) (the same in *Journal des Débats*, December 7, 1915. When Bourderon said that he represented the minority, “violent protests arose”...).
“M. Merrheim was to have given a lecture yesterday evening, rue de Paris, at Montreuil, on the international pacifist meeting at Zimmerwald. M. Merrheim’s lecture was banned.”