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Back from Europe on the Hamburg-American liner, Albert Ballin, came Victor L. Berger, the only Socialist who will sit in the next Congress. (The only Socialist in the last Congress was Meyer London of Manhattan.) Berger will represent the fifth Wisconsin District (Milwaukee)?which he has done before by successful appeals to the Socialist, pro-German and wet sympathizers in his district. During the War he was ejected from Congress and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Espionage...
...Berger has just attended the International Socialist Congress in Hamburg and has made an extensive tour of Germany. On coming back he delivered himself of his impressions...
...Resolution to join the Third Internationale. Referred to Committee on Resolutions. (Morris Hillquit and Victor Q. Berger are now at the World Socialist Convention at Hamburg...
When it comes to politics, the outstanding item is the very clear exposition by Frederick W. Dallinger '93, of "Liberty and its Relation to Patriotism as Illustrated by the Berger-Case," followed by an adumbration of the issue, with a "qualitatively different perspective," by Mr. Harold J. Laski, who thinks that to act as Mr. Berger did "is of the essence of citizenship," and that "What we (meaning the English) would almost above all forget is our imprisonment of Bertrand Russell." He compares the intolerance of the United States to that of Germany before the war, and that of Russia...
Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee editor, convicted of conspiring against the United States, was refused a seat in Congress by a vote of 309 to 1. Congress has not said that "we will allow only men who agree with us to debate with us," but Congress has, with thoroughly justifiable indignation, refused to permit the contamination of the national legislative body by admitting to it a man who has served a prison sentence for treason against the United States government in war time, and whose "ideals" are confessedly unchanged. I grant that the man is probably sincere; sincere people...