To I. F. Armand
И. Ф. АРМАНД
Date: 1917-01-08
Source: ru:PSS/v49
Translated by: AI (Claude)

There was a meeting of the Central Committee of the Swiss party here on Sunday (7.I).

The scoundrel Grimm, at the head of all the rightists, pushed through (against Nobs, Platten, Munzenberg and Naine) a decision to postpone indefinitely the party congress scheduled for 11.II.1917 specifically on the war question. The motives are false. In reality - his desire for a bloc with the rightists, with the social-patriots, who threaten to resign if rejection of defense of the fatherland were to pass!! They don't want to allow the Swiss workers to decide the question of defense of the fatherland!!!

Naine, they say, told Grimm excellently that he is cutting himself as international secretary.

The chairman of Zimmerwald and so on - and such a scoundrel in politics!

I am thinking of writing an open letter to Charles Naine, member of the I.S.C., publishing it and in it calling Grimm a scoundrel and declaring that I do not want to be with such a subject in the Zimmerwald organization and am sending to my Central Committee a motivated statement on this.

It is important to "catch" Grimm immediately, en flagrant delit - to expose him (for "they" will not let anything into print), to tear off the mask.

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

Of course, for publishing leaflets such a leaflet is not suitable, it must be issued separately, outside the firm.

I shake your hand firmly, firmly.

Your Lenin to Clarens (Switzerland)

Written January 8, 1917
Sent from Zurich
First published in 1950
In the 4th edition of the Collected Works
Printed from the manuscript