1 7 4
P. S. You wrote unclearly in the letter to Weinkoop: appointed for
August 20th or proposed? Scribble a couple of words about this to me
and Gregory (if urgent).
Rakovsky (see his brochure)(i jci defense of the fatherland. In
my opinion, we are not on the same path with such people.
1 Manifestos and declarations projects have not been found so far. The draft
resolution see p. 165.
2 «Nashe Slovo» — a daily newspaper, published in Paris, from January
1915 to October 1916. The organ of the Trotskyists icm. Collected Works of Lenin, vol. XIX,
note 34, p. 453).
3 In January 1915, Y. Borchardt's brochure was published: «Vor und nach
dem 4 August 1914. Hat die deutsche Sozialdernokratie abgedankl?». Verlag
der Lichtstrahlen. Berlin. 1915 («Before and after August 4, 1914. Has the Ger-
man Social Democracy resigned?» Publisher «Lichstrahlen». Berlin 1915),
in which he first sharply criticized the treacherous behavior
of the German Social Democrats at the beginning of the world war (see Lenin's article «How the po-
lice and reactionaries protect the unity of the German Social Democracy»
in Collected Works, vol. XVIII, p. 117).
4 At the international socialist women's conference in
Bern under the leadership of Clara Zetkin, the principle resolution proposed
by the delegation of the Central Committee of the RSDLP was rejected and a resolution
avoiding the issue of condemning social chauvinism was adopted.
5 «Proletarsky Golos» is an illegal organ of the PC of the RSDLP
Bolsheviks published in 1915 and 1916. 4 issues were published.
6 This refers to X. Rakovsky's brochure «Les socialistes et la guerre»
(Boucarest). 1915 («Socialists and War»). In Russian translation, it was published
in 1919. Petrograd.
27090 V. I. LENIN - E. A. BERZIN
AND LONDON. *
[August 20, 1915. Sorenberg.]
Dear Berzin!
Thank you very much for the received mandate.1 Please, do not be
too lazy to send me the same in French or in German with a seal, etc. in full form and with the obligatory
addition in the text of the mandate, that your party has always
*
The letter is written on a postcard, indicating the sender's address:
Uljanow in Sorenberg (Kant[on | Luzern) Swizerland; and the dispatch address:
Mr. Jean Berzine. 33. South Hill Park. 33. Hampstead Loudon. N. W. England
Angleterre. The date is established on the basis of the postmark. Ed.