V. I.

Lenin

117

To:   INESSA ARMAND

1917

A meeting of the C.C. of the Swiss party was held here on Sunday
(January 7).

The scoundrel Grimm at the head of all the Rights got carried
(against Nobs, Platten, Münzenberg and Name ) a decision to
postpone , for an indefinite period, the party congress which had
been fixed for February 11, 1917 specially on the question of the war. The
reasons were false. In reality it was his desire for a bloc with the
Rights, with the social-patriots, who threatened to resign if defence of
the fatherland were rejected!! They don’t want to allow the Swiss workers
to decide the question of defence of the fatherland!!!

Name, they say, told Grimm excellently that he was cutting his own
throat as international secretary.

Chairman of Zimmerwald, etc.—yet such a scoundrel in politics!

I have a mind to write an open letter to Charles
Naine, [1] a member of the International Socialist Commission, to publish it, to call
Grimm a blackguard in it, and to say that I don’t want to be in the
Zimmerwald organisation with such a type, and am sending a reasoned
statement on this to my Central Committee.

It’s important to “catch” Grimm immediately, en flagrant délit [2]

—to

expose him (since “they” will not let anything get into the press), to
tear off his mask.

I think this will make Radek + Roland-Holst also say something
to Grimm.

Of course, such a leaflet is not suitable for publishing under
our imprint, it must be published separately, outside our firm.

Very, very best greetings.

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
See present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 220–28.— Ed .

[2]
Red-handed.— Ed .