LETTER TO THE TECHNICAL COMMISSION OF THE RSDLP1

25 June (8 July) 1911

Dear Comrade!

We have received your letter. We are surprised: firstly, by the amount you requested; according to our approximate calculations, the expenses for June–July amount to less than half of the 20 thousand [rubles]. Secondly, we assume you will agree with us that we (the Bolsheviks), as the party that conditionally transferred the money to the German comrades and now presenting a claim for the return of the funds, naturally have the right to act as a conciliatory party2 in the budget formulation.

Awaiting your response, Kamenev.

Lenin.

Zinoviev.

8/VII.

Fund 2, op. 1, f. 23582 — copy, autograph S. Goldenberg.

1 See doc. 33, note 42.

The Technical Commission included M.F. Vladimirsky, M.K. Vladimirov, and V.L. Leder.

2 As in the document.