V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v38;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

I venture to hope that you will accept this mediation, for it seems to me that an amicable settlement of this difficulty would be useful.
Translation from the French
26029
LETTER TO THE LAWYER J. DUCO DE LA HAILLE
[August 28, 1913]

Dear Comrade,

I thank you most cordially, first of all, for your reply to Kautsky and Zetkin. Both letters are so well written that I congratulate you. You have already achieved success: Zetkin remains isolated. And it was Zetkin who was always irreconcilable. If Kautsky agrees to return the money, Zetkin will no longer be able to persist.

Secondly, I thank you for your consent to enlist the help of a Swiss comrade (Karl Zgraggen. Avocat. 35. Spitalgasse. 35. Berne). We greatly regret that we cannot send you the necessary sum for your trip to Jena, but there is nothing to be done. Comrade Zgraggen will defend us in Jena. Could you not write a couple of words to Comrade Zgraggen so that he can show your letter to Kautsky. It is understood—of course—that we will not exceed the limits I indicated in my first letter.

I think it would be very useful if you were also to write 1) to the Board of the German Social-Democratic Party (secretary's address: W. Pfannkuch. Lindenstrasse. 3. Berlin. S. W. 68) and 2) to the Board of the same party in Württemberg (secretary's address: O. Wassner. Hauptstätterstrasse. 96. Stuttgart)—it is to this party that Zetkin belongs—informing them of the text of Kautsky's and Zetkin's letters and your reply, with a request to "set Zetkin on the right path," pointing out to them the inappropriateness of a court case, explaining Zetkin's mistake to them, etc., etc. The Germans, I am sure, will greatly respect the opinion of a socialist lawyer from Paris. The "pressure" (if one may put it that way) of the boards of the German party on Comrade Zetkin