Comrade Martov, citing from *L'Humanité* an interview with me (signed Etienne Avenard)[63], has misrepresented certain passages.

In the interview it is stated that the CC (i.e., of course, its Menshevik section) was secretly and clandestinely informing the Cadets. This statement of mine has now been confirmed by the discussions at the congress. At the congress it became clear that as far back as November 1906 Dan had a private "tête-à-tête" with Milyukov, Nabokov, with the leaders of the SRs and the PSRs. Dan did not think it necessary to report this either to the CC or to the PC.

This meeting with the Cadets, without informing either the CC or the PC about it, was precisely secret and clandestine information-sharing with the Cadets.

Further, the interview states that the Mensheviks did not refute the shameful Cadet proposal to give the Mensheviks seats from the workers' curia in exchange for Menshevik assistance to the Cadets. Comrade Martov argues that the Mensheviks refuted this in words. I state factually that the deeds of the Mensheviks contradicted their verbal refutation: 1) verbally, the Mensheviks promised to give all seats to the workers' curia. In reality, when all the workers' delegates, having gathered together, called upon the Mensheviks (by a majority of 220–230 votes against 10–20) to renounce their "hidden support" of the Cadets, the Mensheviks refused to obey; 2) after January 25th, after the conclusion of the left bloc, the Mensheviks in print made a condition of their assistance to it: freedom of action for Menshevik electors at the second stage. This condition could objectively mean only one thing—readiness to support the Cadets against the Social-Democrats at the second stage.