TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY
OF THE GRANAT BROTHERS PARTNERSHIP
[3 January 1915]

Tverskoi Boulevard — Publishing House Granat. Moscow

Agreed*.

Ulyanov

1 The present telegram is a response to a communication from the editorial board of the "Granat" publishing house concerning cuts made to the article "Karl Marx (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism)" (see Complete Collected Works, vol. 49, pp. 48–49). The article was published in abridged form in volume 28 of the Dictionary under the signature V. Ilin. The complete text of the article was first published in 1925 in the collection: V. I. Lenin. "Marx, Engels, Marxism".

EXTRACTS FROM FRENCH NEWSPAPERS
ON THE LONDON CONFERENCE OF SOCIALISTS
OF THE ENTENTE POWERS1

[Not earlier than 20 February 1915]

On the London Conference...

*Journal de Genève*2. 20. II. 15

Editorial on the occasion of the London Resolution. The phrases of the socialists are ridiculed: "rhetoric," "linguistic habits become custom. Socialism has such habits," "attacks on 'capitalism'"—as if capitalism ruined Belgium and so on and so forth they ridicule... "We are not waging war with peoples, but with governments"—says the London Resolution,—as Wilhelm I3 did in 1870. "The greatest blunder"—to protest against tsarism... "Mr. Gustave Hervé4 ridicules it (this 'encyclical'*, i.e., the London Resolution) relentlessly

* A message from the Pope to all Catholics, the clergy, and monastic orders on matters of religion, morality, and chiefly politics. Used here in a figurative sense.