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Lenin

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To:   CAMILLE HUYSMANS

11.9. 09

Dear Huysmans, I am very much surprised that Comrade Charles Rappoport, who promised
me that he would translate the Programme and Rules of our Party, has not
written to you. He promised to do so several weeks ago.

I shall be in Paris in two or three days and shall ask him about it at
once and let you know.

As regards the affair concerning Mr. Gertsik, it is a very good thing
that you have retracted the more than unfair accusation against our Party.

You ask for the address of the comrade “to whom Gertsik should
apply”. I repeat: he must apply to the commit tees of the parties
whose representatives participated in the hearing of the Gertsik case. The
address of the Bureau Abroad of the Central Committee of the Russian
Social. Democratic Labour Party is the following: Mr. D. Kotlyarenko (for
the Bureau, etc.), 110. Rue d’Orleans 110. Paris. XIV. This address is
regularly given in our papers. I also wish to say again that I shall never
reply to Gertsik since the scoundrel allows himself to level extremely
insulting insinuations at the Russian Social-Democrats. It is as simple as
this. If he has the temerity to say that the Russian Social-Democrats are
“biased” judges, why does he not apply to the committees of the other
parties that passed judgement on him?

Yours,
N. Lenin

Wl. Oulianoff
4. Rue Marie Rose. 4

Paris. XIV.