ABSTRACT
British-German tension was due largely to Germany's increasing military strength, and more specifically to the decision of the kaiser's government to build a powerful navy. Tension between the Anglo-French Entente and the Central Powers soured the relations between the socialists of the countries concerned. The German Social Democratic Party, the leading party in the Second International, was accused of nationalist and imperialist heresies by some French and British socialists. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) Coventry conference the British Socialist Party was founded, made up of the membership of the SDP and other socialist groups, as well as pacifist defectors from the Independent Labour Party. The parties of the Socialist International naturally devoted much time, and many strenuous debates, to the danger of a European war. The unanimous adoption of the compromise resolution at Stuttgart did not end the debate about the socialist answer to the threat of war.
