Dear Comrade!

We are gladly prepared to give 5,000 francs from our I. S. K. fund
(that is, from the fund which Madame Clara Zetkin holds unjustly and illegally),
if the gentlemen from the Organizational Committee, together with their friends
and friendly groups, openly and documentarily declare that this fund (which these
gentlemen know very well) belongs to us, and to us exclusively, and after this
fund is returned to its owners, that is, to us.

With party greetings ...

Translated from the German

**FOOTNOTES:**

1 Robert Grimm — one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, from 1909—1918 its secretary and chief editor of the newspaper "Berner Tagwacht" ("Bern Sentry"). During the years of the world imperialist war — a centrist, participant in the Zimmerwald and Kienthal conferences.

2 "Japanese" — as they were called G. L. Pyatakov and E. B. Bosh, who emigrated to America via Japan.

G. L. Pyatakov — belonged to the Bolshevik Party from 1910. During the world imperialist war he held an anti-Leninist position on the question of the right of nations to self-determination and on other most important questions of party policy; together with Bukharin and Bosh he created an anti-party group. After the October Socialist Revolution he worked in economic and Soviet positions. Repeatedly spoke out against Lenin's party policy. From 1923 an active figure of the Trotskyist opposition. For factional activity was expelled from the VKP(b).

E. B. Bosh — member of the RSDLP from 1901. During the years of the world imperialist war she shared the anti-Leninist views of Bukharin and Pyatakov on the national question.

3 See the present collection, p. 156, footnote 15.

4 This concerns the resolution of the VI (Prague) All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP "On Property in the Hands of the Former Holder and on Money Accounts" (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, Vol. 21, pp. 153—154).

5 This concerns the newspaper "Social-Democrat."

6 Apparently this concerns the so-called August conference of the liquidators, held in Vienna in August 1912.

7 I. S. K. — International Socialist Commission in Bern — the executive organ of the Zimmerwald Association, created at the Zimmerwald Conference of 5—8 September (new style) 1915. The Commission included centrists: R. Grimm, O. Morgari, Ch. Naine, and A. Balabanova.

8 "Our Dawn" — a monthly legal journal of the Menshevik-liquidators; published in 1910—1914 in Petersburg. Around "Our Dawn" crystallized the center of liquidators in Russia.