V. I.

Lenin

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

I am not sending this by express, as it would only waken you, according
to my reckoning, without appreciably saving any time.

I quite agree with you about inviting the French and promising
50 frs.

Advise the Brest people to travel via George: it is important
that he and we should “intercept” them first in stead of Grimm (if
possible it would be good to do the same with the
Parisians [2] ).

I haven’t had time yet to read-the indictment. [3] I shan’t be long.

If you like, I’ll send you Sukhanov’s new pamphlet, if you promise me
Junius [1] (for 1/2 day at least. Get it from Radek, but don’t mention
me). Neither Platten nor Nobs have it.

It would be extremely useful for the cause for Alexander first
to work a little in England. It is dangerous at present to go to
Russia, we shall be ruining a good man (in Sweden as well as in
Russia). Coming here just now is harmful, since he and you will not be able
to restrain yourselves, and we shall only be sullying a valuable
man at the conference. Besides, in a month or two he will be much more useful in Russia, and by that time many important things will be
cleared up and revealed.

Salut, Lenin

P.S. He will have a “rest” only by working in England. Inaction will
only wear him out.

N.B.: P.S. If Grimm does not publish the protest, we must find that out
at once and publish it ourselves, altering the text . [4]

P.P.S. Where are the other theses of Radek’s for the Zimmerwald Left
agreement and when shall we have them???

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to the pamphlet by Junius (Luxemburg), Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie , Zurich, 1916.— Ed .

[2]
This refers to the arrival of the French delegates to the Second
International Socialist Conference. Safarov (George) was in Switzerland at
the time. Whom Lenin meant by the “Brest people” has not been
ascertained.

[3]
Meaning the indictment in the case of the Bolshevik deputies of the
Fourth Duma.

[4]
See Note 431.