V. I.

Lenin

393

To:   V. A. KARPINSKY

Dear Comrade, I am sending the proofs and new copy . This issue must
carry a report on the London Conference .

For God’s sake do everything you can to speed it up. (If you
cannot put it out before our meeting [2] ), then be sure to bring the proofs along
with you (especially the articles on defence of the fatherland).

[[ BOX:
N.B. The material on Martov is to be held up . [1]
Don’t forget!! i.e., don’t put it in.

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Au revoir!

Yours,

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The article “More on Martov” was published in the newspaper
Sotsial-Demokrat No. 41 on May 1, 1915.— Ed .

[2]
This refers to the Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. Sections
Abroad , held in Berne from February 27 to March 4, 1915. Convened
on Lenin’s initiative, it was essentially a general conference of the
Party. The main item on the agenda was the question of the war and the
tasks of the Party, on which Lenin made a report.

All the basic resolutions and preambles to them were drafted by
Lenin. They were published in the newspaper Sotsial-Demokrat and
as addenda to Lenin’s pamphlet Socialism and War published in
Russian and German. The resolutions of the Berne Conference were also
published as a leaflet in French, which was distributed among the delegates
of the Zimmerwald Socialist Conference and sent to the Left elements among
the international Social-Democrats. For the Conference resolutions see
present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 158–64.