I protest in the most energetic manner both against this miserable method of struggle and against Martov's posing of the question as to who lied or who intrigued in recounting a private conversation between myself, him, and Starover. I state that this method contradicts in a glaring fashion Martov's own declarations of yesterday concerning the squeamishness that prevents bringing the matter to the unresolvable question of the truthfulness of accounts of private conversations! I declare that Martov has set forth the private conversation in question{22} in a completely false manner. I declare that I accept any arbitration and challenge Martov to it, should he wish to accuse me of actions incompatible with holding a responsible post in the party. I declare that it is Martov's moral obligation—he who is now advancing not direct accusations but dark innuendoes—that his duty is to have the courage to support his accusations openly and over his own signature before the entire party, and that I, as a member of the editorial board of the party's Central Organ, propose to Martov on behalf of the entire editorial board that he immediately publish all his accusations in a separate pamphlet. By failing to do this, Martov will only prove that he was aiming for nothing but a scandal at the League congress, and not for the moral purification of the party.