V. I.

Lenin

545

To:   INESSA ARMAND

Dear Friend, I am enclosing Abramovich’s letter ( return it immediately ) and
an American leaflet (return when finished with, not urgent).

Abramovich’s letter shows that things are going well (here too:
yesterday a resolution was adopted against the congress being put off and
calling for a referendum on the congress [1] ).

This shows that we must make great haste with our publishing
business (leaflets and sheets). Great haste!! (and start a German
publishing business of our own through the German groups both in
La Chaux-de-Fonds and in Lausanne).

Hurry up with your trip to La Chaux-de-Fonds for a few days, get an
exact estimate from the printing shop (not yourself, but through Abramovich) and write to me as soon as possible. How much money
can you raise and how soon:
50frs.? 100 or 200?

Hurry! Best regards, Yours, Lenin

P.S. About the war, there is no danger: general mobilisation
is not expected until the spring.

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to the referendum on the question of convening an emergency
congress of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party to discuss its attitude
towards the war. Despite the fight started by the leaders of the party
Robert Grimm, Jacques Schmid, Friedrich Schneider, Herman Greulich and
Gustav Muller (see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 283–86) against this
referendum, the latter met with a warm response among the workers of German
and French Switzerland.