1 7 5 (and now is) not only affiliated to the Int[ernational] Soc[ialist] Bureau
(but also had its representative in it with a consultative] vote). Very, very urgent. Best regards!
Yours, V. Ulyanov
P. S. If you have received from us the handwritten draft of a short
declaration in Russian,² then please pass it on to Litvinov
as soon as possible with a request to translate it into English and send
it to me promptly. Drop me a postcard in reply, so that I know you have received this letter, please.
Evidently, E. Berzin initially did not intend to come to
the Zimmerwald Conference and therefore transferred the mandate from the Latvian
S.-D. to Lenin.
See p. 165 of this collection. Ed.
It has not been established to which document the amendments
printed below refer; possibly, to the draft resolution of the Zimmerwald
Left, presented by K. Radek. The words set in
square brackets are crossed out in the manuscript.
20487
G. E. Zinoviev.
* DRAFT AMENDMENTS.
[End of August 1915] lacks: against [Abriistung] * and [United] States]]
2) against [the «centre»], [directly]
3) [defeat at least in that] Form accepted by Radek.
4) insert briefly what the main powers are actually fighting over:
Russia over Constantinople, Germany over African
colonies, France for the preservation of Morocco and other colonies etc.
— disarmament. Ed.