Dear A. M.! You know, of course, that Huysmans is convening the neutrals on June 26.273 We must try to see that there is someone from "ours" from the Scandinavian countries, and we must think carefully through his conduct. Please write back as quickly as possible (so that we have time to correspond), whether there is hope for this.

Are you seeing the German Social-Democratic newspapers? "Volksfreund" (Braunschweig) answered Huysmans well, and the organ of the right wing "Chemnitzer Volksstimme" declared that it agrees completely with the criticism of the Zimmerwald people that Huysmans has.274

Is there no hope of the sentence on Höglund being overturned? Ferocity unheard of, incredible!!

I shake your hand firmly.

Your Lenin

A warm greeting to Nik. Ivanovich, from whom there was a telegram, but no letter. I sincerely wish him to rest and recover soon. How are his finances?

P. S. Is 75 kroner not too much for the brochure in English?275 Should we not wait?

1916

to Christiania (Oslo)

Written between April 19 and May 7

Sent from Zurich

First published in 1924 in Lenin Sbornik II

Printed from the manuscript