V. I.

Lenin

481

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

I shall send you Demain .

I insist on
Stellungnahme. [1]

Re the collection (on international congresses)—I do not agree, as
the Basle resolution, for instance, is missing . That it
will pay for itself, I have no doubt. It will be good both for the
prisoners of war and for Party officials.

( Zina+
In. [2]

etc.)

If Inessa has not left the Distributing Committee, it would be absurd to
talk about Berne not being able to handle distribution, simply
absurd. Alexander is furious at not getting anything. He must be sent it again registered and sent in future registered.

About the Japs, you are entirely wrong. You don’t want to understand
that they are dodging a discussion, throwing the responsibility onto
me and meanly hiding behind Radek. If they want a discussion, let
them publish the pamphlet (and bear the responsibility themselves!! ) or give an article for the C.O.— we’ll publish it ! For a year the scoundrels have been hedging, and you vacillate and
indulge them. I shall have nothing to do with their editorial
board or their collection and I repeat my proposal: that we put an end to
this claptrap once for all.

About “guaranteeing A. for 1/2 year”, I shall try to find out how
much money he needs. [3]

This can’t be decided at a guess. For “trips” and 1/2 year living it
won’t be enough; one trip has shown it. Transport went and will go without him through his agents. And since he is not going home,
it will be more useful for him to go to America for 1/2 year than to sit
doing nothing among idle riffraff and fret him self ill.

Scandal-mongers & Co. would drive even a healthy man to
distraction, and your plans do not serve the cause, they only do harm.

Salut, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
See Document 479 in this volume.— Ed .

[2]
Inessa.— Ed .

[3]
See Document 479 in this volume.— Ed .