ABSTRACT

The Communist coup in Prague set a term to the history of endeavours to reach an understanding between the international Socialist labour movement and the Communist movement. The defence of democracy against attempts at its destruction by the Soviet Union had become a central policy for the Socialist International. The decision by the International Socialist Conference to oppose the Cominform in a clearly defined battle front did, however, encounter resistance from Nenni's Partito Socialista Italiano. The International Socialist Conference 'refuses to recognize as permanent the division of Europe into a free region and an enslaved region. The congress called for the reconstitution of the Socialist International assembled on 30 June 1951 in the Congress Hall at Frankfurt-am-Main. The act of reconstituting the Socialist International by the formal adoption of the resolution was, as the minutes recorded, received by the Congress with enthusiasm.