V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

5. 4. 12.

Dear Citizen,

I have received your Circular No. 5. I enclose with this letter an official communication 78 which I request you to transmit to the secretaries of all parties that have joined the International Bureau in compliance with all the established rules.

In addition, dear Citizen, I address a request to you concerning your preface to Circular No. 5: be so kind as to give me some explanations regarding one point which is not quite clear to me. The matter is as follows.

In the second sentence of your preface you proclaim a principle which, from my point of view, is an excellent one: you declare that the secretariat is obliged to transmit (to all organisations) documents emanating from organisations that have joined the International Bureau in compliance with all the established rules, and from members of the Bureau... This is perfectly correct.

But, dear Citizen, do you not think that the first sentence of your preface, in which you say that you are communicating to the parties that have joined the Bureau a resolution of protest sent, as you have so kindly informed me, by Citizen Babin, is in obvious contradiction to this principle? Does Babin represent an organisation, and what organisation that has joined the Bureau in compliance with all the established rules? Is Babin perhaps a member of the Bureau? If he is a member of the Bureau, what organisation does he represent? And also, what organisation belonging to the Bureau is responsible to the Bureau for the Paris resolution? I shall be infinitely grateful to you, dear Citizen, if you will dispel my doubts.

With fraternal greetings, N. Lenin

Published in French in 1963

in the journal *Cahiers du Monde

Russe et Sovietique*, No. 1-2

First published in Russian

from a typewritten copy

Translation from the French

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Sent from Paris to Brussels

First published