V. I.

Lenin

Werter Genosse , I enclose a letter about the
Vorkonferenz . [1]
[3]

Take a copy for
Lichtstrahlen [4] —or get Wijnkoop ( if you are sure that he is punctual) to send it on to them.

N.B. ||

All this is vertraulich . [2]

Promise not to speak about it, either to Grimm or to Balabanova or to Trotsky or to anyone
else!

Read my letter to Wijnkoop and send it off. [5] I hope you have sent off the previous one! Let me know about this.

Either the German Left will now unite (if only for a statement of principles on behalf of an anonymous Stern [6]
group, or whatever you like: the workers will later join
this group), or we shall have to dismiss them from our minds.

( I understand that Lichtstrahlen cannot act directly.
But why should not a Stern group, consisting of X+Y+Z, come forward with resolutions or a manifesto? And then
privately and secretly distribute them?)

I don’t understand how you missed the Vorkonferenz in Berne!? And you were the one who was exhorting me!?

Yours, Lenin

P.S. Do you find reading Russian difficult? Do you understand everything ?

P.S. Either send the Berne resolutions (the translation)
direct to Wijnkoop (if you have a copy), or send them here:
we shall make a copy. [7]

It would be extremely important for us to have a private
consultation with some of the German Left. Could you organise this? By the way, why not come over here?