19/4. 05.

Dear L., It is impossible to obtain a mandate from the CC for your greeting to the Congress.34

I initially thought that our Congress would open before April 22 and that we would be able to obtain a mandate for you from the Congress itself, but this did not work out; our Congress is dragging on*.

Refer to the editorial board of *Vpered* and deliver the greeting to the Congress in its name, and through it — in the name of the RSDLP; this will be the best course.

The note about the March lies will be published.35 Write from the Congress.

Yours,
V. Ulyanov

P. S. Kautsky again fabricated lies about *Vpered* and *Iskra* in No. 29 of *Neue Zeit*!36 It would be good if you could "correct" him in your speech at the Congress.

Sent from Geneva to Paris

First published in 1931 in Lenin Collection XVI

Printed from the manuscript